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 from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. As well as surveying Indigenous European relations, it explores the impact of racism on Chinese, Melanesian, Irish, German, Italian and postwar migrant groups.