Deck 14: Race and Reconciliation in Australia

Question 1

Which of the following people is the term 'social Darwinism' most closely associated with?

A) Charles Darwin
B) Herbert Spencer
C) Auguste Comte
D) Émile Durkheim

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What do contemporary views of Aboriginal identity often reflect?

A) Biological essentialism
B) Authenticity
C) Cultural essentialism
D) None of the above

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What does the study of 'whiteness' focus upon?

A) The colour of a person's skin
B) Differences between white and non-white people
C) Power and identity differences between white and non-white people
D) Racist political parties

Answer 3

C

Question 4

'Reconciliation' was a recommendation stemming from:

A) The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Report Bringing Them Home
B) The Labour government headed by Gough Whitlam
C) The Labour government headed by Paul Keating
D) The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

Question 5

When was the apology to the Stolen Generations issued by the Australian Federal Government?

A) 1967
B) 1972
C) 1997
D) 2008

Question 6

What was the term used by the British to legally define Australia as an unoccupied land belonging to no one and therefore open to conquest?

A) Open possession
B) Dispossession
C) Non-colonised
D) Terra nullius

Question 7

What is the pejorative term for accounts of Australian history that focus on incidents of sadness and shame, such as the treatment of Indigenous peoples?

A) New racism
B) The history of the dispossessed
C) Black armband history
D) Post-colonialism

Question 8

What is the term that refers to a focus on achieving equality for Indigenous people in citizenship rights, including access to the same opportunities and services as others?

A) Symbolic reconciliation
B) Social cohesion
C) Structural and institutional change
D) Self-determination

Question 9

The Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) measures included:

A) Income management
B) Child health checks
C) Changes to the permit system
D) All of the above

Question 10

For a Marxist, race is:

A) Simply another status distinction
B) Furthering the interests of capital through labour exploitation
C) About governmentality through the power of everyday institutions
D) About hybridity as a description of ethnic identity