![]() The role of the white men, to 'breed out the colour', was at the centre of the project to biologically assimilate 'half-castes': white women were thought to have no role in this plan. Social stigmas were attached to these men and their families during a time when racial 'mixing' was taboo and, at the same time, a biopolitical instrument by which to 'manage' so-called half-castes. This could be the result of a number of factors, not least being the sense that such relationships were/are shameful, smaller versions of colonialism itself. White men with Aboriginal families (wives, partners, children) during the twentieth century have not been the subject of sustained academic study. ![]() ![]() ![]() (1)Įvery privileged class tries at first to whitewash its black sheep. Genealogy can be harnessed to support racialized and racist versions of nationhood and ethnicities but it can also serve as a way of reimagining the fixity of belonging, culture and inheritance in postcolonial contexts. ![]()
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