The Cultivation of Whiteness - by Warwick Anderson (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this controversial study, Anderson provides the first full account of the shocking experimentation in the 1920s and '30s on Aboriginal people of the central deserts--the Australian equivalent of the infamous Tuskegee Experiment.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In nineteenth-century Australia, the main commentators on race and biological differences were doctors. But the medical profession entertained serious anxieties about the possibility of racial denigration of the white population in the new land, and medical and social scientists violated ethics and principles in pursuit of a more homogenized Australia. <i>The Cultivation of Whiteness</i> examines the notions of whiteness and racism, and introduces a whole new framework for discussion of the development of medicine and science. Warwick Anderson provides the first full account of the shocking experimentation in the 1920s and '30s on Aboriginal people of the central deserts -- the Australian equivalent of the infamous Tuskegee Experiment. Lucid and entertaining throughout, this pioneering historical survey of ideas will help to reshape debate on race, ethnicity, citizenship, and environment everywhere.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Profound and eloquent...Anderson writes the Australian chapter for the global story of the diffusion of notions of heredity in social thought."<br><br>"This is an outstanding history, well written and full of thoughtful analyses."<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Warwick Anderson</b> is Director of the History of Health Sciences Program and Vice Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, as well as Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in Australia, he now lives in San Francisco.
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