Changing Skin Colour in Australia Herbert Basedow and Black Caucasian ZOGBAUM

Description: Changing Skin Colour in Australia: Herbert Basedow and the Black Caucasian. Including Herbert Basedow's 'Knights of the Boomerang' and David Kraus's essay 'On the Photography of Herbert Basedow' AUTHOR: Zogbaum, Heidi PUBLISHING DETAIL: Australian Scholarly Publishing. North Melbourne. EDITION & DATE: Reprint 2019.. BINDING & PAGES: Softcover. 324 pages. SIZE & CONDITION: Octavo Size. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Includes Herbert Basedow's 'Knights of the Boomerang' and David Kaus's essay 'On the Photography of Herbert Basedow'. CONTENT: "When in 1997 the Bringing Them Home Report about the forcible removal of part-Aboriginal children from their parents was published, many Australians felt stunned and ashamed. What was such a brutal policy of biological engineering meant to achieve, and who were the men behind it? One of them was Dr Herbert Basedow 1881-1933 from Adelaide, a geologist, medical doctor, M.P., and anthropologist. He unwittingly provided the administrators of the White Australia policy with a bloodless method of 'breeding out the colour', of biologically absorbing Aborigines into the white-settler society. His studies in Germany had convinced him that Aborigines were the racial ancestors of Europeans, that they were black Caucasians, and therefore Aboriginal features disappeared for good after three or four generations of intermarriage with Europeans. Dr Basedow was a scientist and he never intended to harm countless Aboriginal families. On the contrary, he dedicated much of his short life to extending their future. But the removal of children did not stop in 1953 when the structure of DNA was discovered and rendered Basedow's findings of 1910 untenable. It only ended with the White Australia policy itself." Publisher's commentary ISBN: 1921509929 WEIGHT: 650 grams Postage and Collection Postage Sent by Australia Post. Robust, professional packing and tracking for all parcels Personal Collection Buyers can also collect, by arrangement, from our shop in Clarence Gardens. Please contact us for details. We are professional booksellers who pride ourselves on the quality of our books and service. Please contact us if you have any problems or questions.

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