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<TITLE>CONSTRUCTING NATIONAL IDENTITIES: SOUTH AFRICA, CANADA AND AUSTRALIA IN A POSTCOLONIAL AGE</TITLE>
<POINTS>12.5 1st year
<COORDINATOR>Professor P Grimshaw, Associate Professor D Philips.
<PREREQUISITES>None, but it is recommended that this subject be taken in conjunction with 131-116 Colonisers and Colonised: South Africa, Canada and Australia in an Imperial Age
<SEMESTER>Second semester
<CONTACT>3 hours per week.
<OBJECTIVES>Students who complete this subject should be able to: understand key aspects of the history of race relations in twentieth-century South Africa, Canada, Australia and New Zealand; develop skills in comparative history; understand the racial, ethnic and gendered components of the new countries' attitudes to citizenship and nationalism.
<CONTENT>The subject addresses the interaction of white citizens and indigenous peoples in South Africa, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in the twentieth century, and the conflicts surrounding nationalisms and identities deriving from ethnic differences within the ranks of non-indigenous peoples. The subject covers: disputes surrounding citizenship (who's in; who's out?), state policies towards indigenous peoples in terms of assimilation and segregation; and the attitudes of various ethnic groups towards mono-culturalism, bi-culturalism and multi-culturalism over the course of the century.
<ASSESSMENT>Students will be assessed on one research essay of 2,500 words (50%), one review essay of 1,500 words (40%) and tutorial participation.
<PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
<ATEXT>Denoon, D <i>Settler Capitalism: The Dynamics of Dependent Development in the Southern Hemisphere</i>, Clarendon Press Oxford 1983. Granatstein, JL et. al. (eds), <i>Nation: Canada Since Federation</i> (3rd ed), McGraw-Hill Toronto 1990. Eddy J and Schreuder D (eds. ) <i>The Rise of Colonial Nationalism</i>, Allen &amp; Unwin, Sydney 1988
<ATEXT><i>Hemisphere, </i>Clarendon, Oxford, 1983
<ATEXT>Grimshaw P Lake M McGrath A and Quartly M <i>Creating a Nation, </i>McPhee/Gribble-Penguin 1994
<ATEXT>Davenport, T R H <i>South Africa. </i> <i>A Modern History</i>, (4th ed. ), Macmillan, 1991
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<SUBJECT ID="131-117" CODEUSED="131-117">
<TITLE>CONSTRUCTING NATIONAL IDENTITIES: SOUTH AFRICA, CANADA AND AUSTRALIA IN A POSTCOLONIAL AGE</TITLE>
<POINTS>12.5
<COORDINATOR>Professor P Grimshaw, Associate Professor D Philips.
<PREREQUISITES>None, but it is recommended that this subject be taken in conjunction with 131-116 Colonisers and Colonised: South Africa, Canada and Australia in an Imperial Age
<SEMESTER>Second semester.
<CONTACT>3 hours each week.
<OBJECTIVES>Students who complete this subject should be able to: understand key aspects of the history of race relations in twentieth-century South Africa, Canada, Australia and New Zealand; develop skills in comparative history; understand the racial, ethnic and gendered components of the new countries' attitudes to citizenship and nationalism.
<CONTENT>The subject addresses the interaction of white citizens and indigenous peoples in South Africa, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in the twentieth century, and the conflicts surrounding nationalisms and identities deriving from ethnic differences within the ranks of non-indigenous peoples. The subject covers: disputes surrounding citizenship (who's in; who's out?), state policies towards indigenous peoples in terms of assimilation and segregation; and the attitudes of various ethnic groups towards mono-culturalism, bi-culturalism and multi-culturalism over the course of the century.
<ASSESSMENT>Students will be assessed on one research essay of 2,500 words (50 per cent); one review essay of 1,500 words (40 per cent) and tutorial participation.
<PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
<ATEXT>Denoon, D. , <i>Settler Capitalism: The Dynamics of Dependent Development in the Southern Hemisphere</i>, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1983. Granatstein, J. L. et. al. (eds), <i>Nation: Canada Since Federation</i> (3rd ed), McGraw-Hill, Toronto, 1990. Eddy, J and Schreuder, D (eds. ) <i>The Rise of Colonial Nationalism</i>, Allen &amp; Unwin, Sydney 1988
<ATEXT><i>Hemisphere</i>, Clarendon, Oxford, 1983
<ATEXT>Grimshaw, P, Lake, M. , McGrath, A. and Quartly, M. , <i>Creating a Nation</i>, McPhee/Gribble-Penguin, 1994
<ATEXT>Davenport, T. R. H. , <i>South Africa. A Modern History</i>, (4th ed. ), Macmillan, 1991
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