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    Two rescues, one History: everyday racism in Australia

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    Authors
    Stratton, Jon
    Date
    2006
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Stratton, Jon. 2006. Two rescues, one history: everyday racism in Australia. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture. 12 (6): pp. 657-681.
    Source Title
    Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture
    DOI
    10.1080/13504630601030867
    ISSN
    1350-4630
    Faculty
    Division of Humanities
    Faculty of Media, Society and Culture
    Department of Communication and Cultural Studies
    Faculty of Media, Society and Culture (MSC)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17773
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    On the same day, at different ends of Australia, two extraordinary rescues of men from extreme hardship took place. The two miners, both white and of Anglo-Celtic origin, were feted, appeared on television chat shows and became celebrities so sought after that they had to employ an agent. The three Torres Strait Islanders, members of a grouping identified as 'indigenous' in the Australian social order, who had survived 22 days at sea in an open dinghy, were, to all intents and purposes, ignored by the mainstream Australian media. They would appear to have simply gone back to their families and got on with their lives. This article tracks the discursive histories in which each event was embedded to examine how this distinction could happen and how it could be so naturalised that hardly anybody commented on the disparity of treatment. It is this taken-for-granted disparity that I am describing here as everyday racism.

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