Early Childhood in Postcolonial Australia : Children's Contested Identities.

Cover -- Early Childhood in Postcolonial Australia -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Who Am I? Who Is My Ganga? -- Chapter 1 Ganga: Our Beginnings, Our Context, Our Stories -- Chapter 2 Boundaries Speak: othering, Othering, øthering Australian / Not Australian -- Chapter 3 Complex(ion) Speak: I Am White, I Am Australian. Pookey Is Black, She Is Not Australian -- Chapter 4 Forbidden Fs Speak: You Know What Australians Think If You Say You Are a Muslim -- Chapter 5 Tongue Ties Speak: I Am Australian, I Speak Australian -- Chapter 6 Terra Strikes Speak: We Can't Let Everyone in, This Is Our Country, Shouldn't We Have a Choice -- Chapter 7 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" -- References -- Index.

Early Childhood in Postcolonial Australia is a critical narration of how Australian children use cultural markers such as, skin color, diet and religious practices to build their identity categories of "self" and "other.".

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