期刊名称：Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
印刷版ISSN：1447-8986
电子版ISSN：1833-6027
出版年度：2008
卷号：SP
页码：10-36
出版社：Association for the Study of Australian Literature
摘要：Facing each other across the Indian Ocean are two parallel histories of race,
culture, and phantasy.1 In the era of state racism that spanned the long
middle of the twentieth century, South Africa and Australia produced two
contrasting responses to miscegenation. In South Africa the ideologues of
apartheid professed to ward off the spectre of mixing White and Black,
European and African, through separation. In Australia, where, against
the background of strict racial separation and laws against interracial sex, a
certain strand of eugenicist thinking and policy recognised the history and
inevitability of continued mixing between Whites and Aborigines, a policy
of selective assimilation was pursued. When assimilation turned for a time
into ¡°absorption¡±,2 until World War Two put paid to overt eugenics, it is
safe to say that miscegenation was actively sanctioned and promoted by the
authorities.
