'Whiteness' and 'Aboriginality' in Canada and Australia: Conversations and identities

Feminist Theory

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 187-208

  Fee, Margery ^a   Russell, Lynette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginality; Australia; Canada; Cultural hybridity; Racism; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547501263     PISSN: 14647001     EISSN: 17412773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464700107078141     Document Type: Article

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