{"product_id":"imagined-destinies-aboriginal-australians-the-doomed-race-theory-1880-1939","title":"Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians \u0026 the Doomed Race Theory 1880–1939","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003eWhite Australians once confidently—if regretfully—believed that the Aboriginal people were doomed to extinction. Even in the 1950s, Australian children were still being taught that the Australian Aboriginals were a dying race who would eventually disappear from the face of the earth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eImagined Destinies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Russell McGregor explores the origins and the gradual demise of the 'doomed race' theory, which was unquestioned in nineteenth-century European thinking and remained uncontested until the 1930s. White perceptions of Australia's indigenous people and their future had been shaped by Enlightenment ideas about progress, Darwin's new theories on the survival of the fittest, and other European philosophical concepts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003eImagined Destinies provides a challenging analysis and history of an idea which has exerted a powerful influence over white Australian attitudes to, and policies for, Aboriginal people. Indeed, its long shadow may still be with us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pearl Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45498218152133,"sku":"OFS30325437","price":42.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/7660\/8453\/files\/s-l1600_5732d7be-22ed-4ed7-8017-1c9973cffd35.webp?v=1775782125","url":"https:\/\/pearlpress.com.au\/products\/imagined-destinies-aboriginal-australians-the-doomed-race-theory-1880-1939","provider":"Pearl Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}