Changing Skin Colour in Australia: Herbert Basedow and the Black Caucasian. Including Herbert Basedow's 'Knights of the Boomerang' and David Kraus's essay 'On the Photography of Herbert Basedow' by Heidi Zogbaum - 2010

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2019. Octavo Size. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Includes Herbert Basedow's 'Knights of the Boomerang' and David Kaus's essay 'On the Photography of Herbert Basedow'. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 324 pages. "When in 1997 the Bringing Them Home Report about the forcible removal of part-Aboriginal children from their parents was published, many Australians felt stunned and ashamed. What was such a brutal policy of biological engineering meant to achieve, and who were the men behind it? One of them was Dr Herbert Basedow 1881–1933 from Adelaide, a geologist, medical doctor, M.P., and anthropologist. He unwittingly provided the administrators of the White Australia policy with a bloodless method of 'breeding out the colour', of biologically absorbing Aborigines into the white-settler society. His studies in Germany had… Read More