Made to Matter: White Fathers, Stolen Generations
Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
Jan 2013 · Sydney University Press
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Most members of the Stolen Generations had white fathers or grandfathers. Who were these white men? This book analyses the stories of white fathers, men who were positioned as key players in the plans to assimilate Aboriginal people by 'breeding out the colour'. The plan to 'breed out the colour' ascribed enormous power to white sperm and white paternity; to 'elevate', 'uplift' and disperse Aboriginality in whiteness, to blank out, to aid cultural forgetting. The policy was a cruel failure, not least because it conflated skin colour with culture and assumed that Aboriginal women and their children would acquiesce to produce 'future whites'. It also assumed that white men would comply as ready appendages, administering 'whiteness' through marriage or white sperm. This book attempts to put textual flesh on the bodies of these white fathers, and in doing so, builds on and complicates the view of white fathers in this history, and the histories of whiteness to which they are biopolitically related.
About the author
Fiona Probyn-Rapsey is senior lecturer in the
Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney,
Australia. She completed a PhD at the University of New South Wales in
literature, on JM Coetzee. She teaches and researches in the areas of
gender studies and animal studies, with an emphasis on Australia.
Current research connect feminist postcolonial (or critical race)
studies and animal studies, examining where, when and how gender, race
and species intersect in the context of postcolonial societies. She is
Series Editor (with Melissa Boyde) of Sydney University Press’ Animal
Publics series and the editor (with Jay Johnston) of 'Animal Death'
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