The child as mediator of racial ambivalence in Australia: ‘Egg Boy’ and the racist girl

IF 1.6 3区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-11 DOI:10.1080/09502386.2022.2034908

Joanne Faulkner

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In white settler-colonial Australian imagination, ‘the child’ historically has both signalled the colony’s flourishing and is charged with anxiety about belonging and identity. This article analyses a set of events in which children were the occasion through which Australians managed racial violence and/or publicly distanced the mainstream from endemic racism. Differences between the mediating power of ‘white’ childhood versus Indigenous childhood are analysed, with a view to exploring how children are either problematized or positioned as figures of redemption, through processes of racialization.

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儿童作为澳大利亚种族矛盾心理的中介:“鸡蛋男孩”和种族主义女孩

在澳大利亚白人殖民者的想象中，“孩子”在历史上既标志着殖民地的繁荣，又充满了对归属感和身份的焦虑。本文分析了一系列事件，在这些事件中，澳大利亚人通过儿童来管理种族暴力和/或公开地将主流与地方性的种族主义拉开距离。分析了“白人”童年与土著儿童的中介能力之间的差异，以期探索儿童如何通过种族化过程被问题化或被定位为救赎的形象。

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Cultural Studies Multiple-

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3.50

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6.70%

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期刊介绍： Cultural Studies is an international journal which explores the relation between cultural practices, everyday life, material, economic, political, geographical and historical contexts. It fosters more open analytic, critical and political conversations by encouraging people to push the dialogue into fresh, uncharted territory. It also aims to intervene in the processes by which the existing techniques, institutions and structures of power are reproduced, resisted and transformed. Cultural Studies understands the term "culture" inclusively rather than exclusively, and publishes essays which encourage significant intellectual and political experimentation, intervention and dialogue.