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Reading ‘Multiculturalism’: A Historiography of Policy and Ideal in Australia
Author(s) -
Anderson Zoe
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/hic3.12098
Subject(s) - multiculturalism , historiography , reading (process) , politics , ideal (ethics) , aesthetics , sociology , gender studies , epistemology , political science , psychology , law , philosophy
This article will detail the historiographical accounts of the reasons for the creation of a policy of multiculturalism, and the ways in which multiculturalism has been explained and understood through contemporary analyses and histories. This article serves as an overview to these complex intersections between contemporary politics and histories of multiculturalism as markers of who embodies, and what is, ‘Australianness’.