'No white man on the station but myself' : whiteness as a category of analysis for the Reverend Francis Tuckfield

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The work 'No white man on the station but myself' : whiteness as a category of analysis for the Reverend Francis Tuckfield represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

'No white man on the station but myself' : whiteness as a category of analysis for the Reverend Francis Tuckfield

Title remainder

whiteness as a category of analysis for the Reverend Francis Tuckfield

Statement of responsibility

Sam Ritchie

Creator

• Ritchie, Sam

Subject

• Economic sectors - Pastoral industry - Sheep and wool
• Race relations
• Religions - Christianity - Methodist Church
• Religions - Christianity - Missionaries
• Settlement and contacts - 19th Century
• Tuckfield, Francis, 1808-1865
• Buntingdale Mission (Vic.)

Language

eng

Summary

Analyses the concept of 'whiteness' at the beginning of European settlement in Port Phillip (1835-1845) with reference to the evangelical Wesleyan missionary Francis Tuckfield ; includes biographical details on the life and career of Tuckfield and the first three years of the Buntingdale Mission; describes the use of the term 'White' by Tuckfield; his growing knowledge of the culture and religion of the local Aboriginal people; his realisation that pastoralism was having a detrimental effect; his belief that the pastoral industry was the way Aboriginal people could be 'saved' through the 'privilege of whiteness' - civilising (Europeanising) and Christianising

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• ACRAWSA e-journal

Cataloging source

AIAS

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no index present

Literary form

non fiction