Aliens & Savages

<p><em>Aliens & Savages</em> is a hands-on historical record of the racism that underpins Australia's growth as a nation. First published at the end of the twentieth century this new and revised edition asks: what has changed?</p><p></p><p>At a time of rising political and economic uncertainty with its associated rise in prejudice and racism <em>Aliens & Savages </em>remains the only publication of its kind - a survey of racism and xenophobia in Australian popular writings before the advent of social media.</p><p>It is a collection of fiction and non-fiction of personal narratives and official reports of diaries and media misinformation. In it you can hear the unguarded voices of the colonists the squatters the politicians; you can see the close relationship between the popular press and the prejudices of its readers.</p><p></p><p><em>In this unashamedly impassioned analysis of 'our collective cultural amnesia' Janeen Webb and Andrew Enstice have excavated a murky and largely ignored body of racist popular fiction which has been conveniently forgotten or dismissed as unimportant because it is 'not serious literature'...Treating these buried stories as a kind of collective unconscious...the authors are able to explore the lineage of contemporary alarmist rhetoric.</em></p><p class=ql-align-right><em>-The Age</em></p>