Race Daze: Australia in Identity Crisis. by Stratton, Jon - 1998

Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Pluto Press, 1998 Race Daze demonstrates the surprising similarities between the policies of assimilation and multiculturalism, and explains why there is so much anxiety in Australia over multicultural policies that essentialise 'ethnics' as never quite Australian. Several copies are available. 244 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Paperback. Very Good. Size E: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).

Sydney, Pluto Press, 1998 [1st edition]; 135 x 215 mm, 244 pp. Soft Cover, light age toning, small bump to top of spine, otherwise like new. From the cover: Race Daze argues that the post-Whitlam Australian national identity remains hung up on our Anglo-Celtic past and takes the reader on an entertaining cruise through our films to prove his point. From Barry McKenzie to Crocodile Dundee to The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Race Daze shows that Australian films and television have lagged far behind our polyglot cultural reality, recycling a white Australia that no longer exists. Race Daze examines fundamental issues of Australian cultural life in the 1990s and with good humour critiques the orthodoxies of both the left and the right. Stratton tackles head-on the debates about race, culture and identity that have become national obsessions throughout the West.