In Apartheid’s Shadow: Australian Race Politics and South Africa, 1945-1975, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019, 2022, pp. 352
The first detailed scholarly study of Australia’s complex relations with white South Africa, it argues that the shadows cast by apartheid and the incessant international assault against colonialism and racism, were powerful if unexpected catalysts for change in White Australia across a generation after the war. Australia’s image and reputation were clouded by its unique friendship with the apartheid state. The systemic racism that stained White Australia’s reputation had to be rejected if Australia was to negotiate its place successfully in a post-colonial world. The international movement against racism did little to hasten the end of apartheid in South Africa, but it had dramatic implications for Australia, hastening the end of the infamous White Australia Policy and quickening the drive for constitutional equality and citizenship for Aboriginal Australians.
Table of Contents and Prologue
Introduction
Review by Professor Christopher Waters, Deakin University
Bell interview: How apartheid changed ‘White’ Australia
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Playing with Apartheid: Racism, Australian Sport and South Africa, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2022, pp. 248
In the wake of the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, sport because a fault-line in international campaigns against racism. It explores the role of Australian sport in the long campaign to end white minority rule in South Africa. Struggles over racism penetrated every aspect of sporting interaction between Australia and South Africa during the apartheid years, 1948-1994. In unexpected ways, international controversy over apartheid-sport also exposed racism in the very fabric of sport in Australia. In no country were contests over racism in sport more bitterly fought, more protracted or important than in Australia.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
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