HIS2001 Race Relations in Australian History (FOART)

Units 1.0 (History) Band 1

Pre-requisite: Any two units of History, one of which must have Australian content.

Synopsis

Racism has been a crucial factor in Australian society since the arrival of the first Europeans. This course will examine the historical development of racial ideas and structures in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As well as surveying Indigenous European relations, it explores the impact of racism on Chinese, Melanesian, Irish, German, Italian and postwar migrant groups.