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Spinning the dream : assimilation in Australia 1950-1970 / Anna Haebich.

Author: Haebich, Anna.

Imprint:North Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Press, 2008.

Description460 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note:Part I. White nation -- 1. Anxious world -- 2. New white Australia -- Part II. Selling assimilation -- 3. Promises -- 4. Practices -- Part III. Assimilation in Nyungar country -- 5. Good citizens -- 6. Happy families -- 7. Living the dream (with Lauren Marsh) -- Part IV. Cracks in the mirror -- 8. Paradox -- 9. Fragments.

Bibliography Note:Biblography : p. 426-443.

Note:"A history of the policy of Assimilation in Australia as applied to Aboriginal people and non-English speaking immigrants from the 1950s to the 1970s"--Provided by publisher.



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