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Very white men

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May 2008, no. 301

Drawing the Global Colour line: White men’s countries and the question of racial equality by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds

MUP, $36.95 pb, 371 pp

Very white men

by
May 2008, no. 301

On the front of the only postcard my grandfather kept is a picture of the United States Navy’s ‘great white fleet’ off Australian shores. A Pennsylvanian uncle sent it to the nine-year-old boy in 1908, ‘from one white man to another’. After reading Marilyn Lake’s and Henry Reynolds’s important new book on the transnational assertion of white racial identity in the early twentieth century, I now know that our American relative was merely echoing Rear-Admiral Sperry, who, at a luncheon in Sydney the same year, greeted his Australian hosts as a ‘white man to white men, and I may add, very white men’.

Drawing the Global Colour line: White men’s countries and the question of racial equality

Drawing the Global Colour line: White men’s countries and the question of racial equality

by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds

MUP, $36.95 pb, 371 pp

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