Imagined Destinies

Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880â"1939

By: Russell McGregor

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Paperback | 12 February 2024 | Edition Number 1

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Examines the origins and decline of the pernicious notion that Aboriginals were a 'doomed race'.

White Australians once confidently—if regretfully—believed that the Aboriginal people were doomed to extinction. Even in the 1950s, Australian children were still being taught that the Australian Aboriginals were a dying race who would eventually disappear from the face of the earth.

In Imagined Destinies, Russell McGregor explores the origins and the gradual demise of the 'doomed race' theory, which was unquestioned in nineteenth-century European thinking and remained uncontested until the 1930s. White perceptions of Australia's indigenous people and their future had been shaped by Enlightenment ideas about progress, Darwin's new theories on the survival of the fittest, and other European philosophical concepts.

Imagined Destinies provides a challenging analysis and history of an idea which has exerted a powerful influence over white Australian attitudes to, and policies for, Aboriginal people. Indeed, its long shadow may still be with us.

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Conversions
Prologue: The Eclipse of Antipodean Enlightenment	p. 1
The Creation and Annihilation of Primitive Man	p. 19
Protection and Preservation	p. 60
Anthropology Renovated, Optimism Revived and Problems Renewed	p. 100
Civilisation by Blood	p. 142
Progress for All	p. 181
New Solutions, Old Assumptions	p. 224
Abbreviations	p. 261
Notes	p. 262
Bibliography	p. 288
Index	p. 307
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