Early childhood in postcolonial Australia : children's contested identities

Early childhood in postcolonial Australia : children's contested identities / by Prasanna Srinivasan.

"Early Childhood in Postcolonial Australia" explores how cultural identities are contested in postcolonial spaces by subjects of nation, color and culture in early childhood settings. The book uses participatory action research methodology to gather how language was used in early childhood...

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Main Author: Srinivasan, Prasanna (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:Critical cultural studies of childhood.
Subjects:
Srinivasan, Prasanna > Childhood and youth.
Srinivasan, Prasanna
Children of minorities > Australia > Social conditions.
Children of minorities > Australia > Language.
East Indians > Australia > Social conditions.
Ethnicity > Australia > Psychological aspects.
Human skin color > Social aspects > Australia.
English language > Social aspects > Australia.
Early childhood education > Social aspects > Australia.
Postcolonialism > Australia.
Age groups: children > Australia.
Multicultural education > Australia.
Pre-school & kindergarten > Australia.
Sociology > Australia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Children of minorities > Language
Children of minorities > Social conditions
Early childhood education > Social aspects
East Indians > Social conditions
English language > Social aspects
Ethnicity > Psychological aspects
Human skin color > Social aspects
Postcolonialism
Race relations
Society.
Australia > Race relations.
Australia
collective biographies.
History
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Who am I? Who is my Ganga?
  • Ganga : Our beginnings, our context, our stories
  • Boundaries speak : othering, Othering, øthering Australian/not Australian
  • Complex(ion) speak : I am white, I am Australian; Pookey is Black, she is not Australian
  • Forbidden Fs speak : You know what Australians think if you say you are a Muslim
  • Tongue ties speak : I am Australian, I speak Australian
  • Terra strikes speak : We can't let everyone in, this is our country, shouldn't we have a choice
  • The "whiteness truth" : We have to do something
  • Epilogue: But remember she is saying, "I don't like brown skin, I am white"
  • Appendix
  • Ganga's key : "boundary speakers."

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