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The Clear Categories of Olive Pink
Author(s) -
McGregor Russell
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1834-4461
pISSN - 0029-8077
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02485.x
Subject(s) - stern , race (biology) , context (archaeology) , aesthetics , extinction (optical mineralogy) , african descent , descent (aeronautics) , sociology , genealogy , history , ethnology , environmental ethics , gender studies , art , geography , philosophy , ancient history , archaeology , biology , meteorology , paleontology
This paper explores Olive Pink's writings of the 1930s, with particular emphasis on her stern moral convictions, and her insistence that persons of mixed Aboriginal and other descent were not Aborigines. It suggests that these two issues were linked, and may best be understood in the context of the contemporary preoccupation with saving a race which had long been regarded as doomed to extinction.