Forgetting Indigenous Histories: Cases from the History of Australia's Stolen Generations
Forgetting Indigenous Histories: Cases from the History of Australia's Stolen Generations
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忘记土著历史：澳大利亚被偷走的一代的历史案例
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10.1353/jsh.2011.0042
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发表时间：
2011
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0.8
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A. Haebich
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作者：
A. Haebich
在白色澳大利亚，集体遗忘和否认对土著人民的不公正行为由来已久。这一点在公众对1997年《带他们回家报告》的反应中很明显，该报告涉及有系统地将几代土著儿童从其家庭中带走的问题。震惊，痛苦和行会的情绪，以及愤怒的否认，表明一个长期持有的秘密终于曝光。然而，在以前的许多场合，有些是最近，曝光引发了类似的激烈辩论。本文通过借鉴最近关于遗忘、无知和种族的研究来解决这一令人困惑的现象，以了解这些社会过程如何有助于构建包括和排除的主导身份和历史，并使不平等待遇正常化，以至于主导群体无法认识到他人的歧视性条件或理解自己在产生这些条件中的作用。几个历史案例研究记录了有关儿童被带走的知识如何引起公众意识和争议，然后又重新陷入遗忘和无知，导致针对“被偷走的一代”的不公正问题尚未解决。该文件认为，尽管2008年国家对被偷走的一代进行了情绪化的道歉，但这也可能是《带他们回家报告》的命运。
Collective forgetting and denial of injustices perpetrated against Indigenous people have a long history in white Australia. This was evident in public response to the 1997 Bringing Them Home Report, concerning the systematic removal of generations of Indigenous children from their families. Emotions of shock, anguish and guild, as well as angry denial, suggested a long held secret finally exposed. Yet on numerous previous occasions, some quite recent, exposure had provoked similarly passionate debate. This paper addresses this puzzling phenomenon by drawing on recent research on forgetting, ignorance, and race to understand how these social processes help to construct dominant identities and histories that include and exclude, and that normalize unequal treatment to the point that dominant groups fail to recognize the discriminatory conditions of others or understand their own role in producing them. Several historical case studies document how knowledge of child removals emerged into public awareness and controversy and then subsided back into forgetfulness and ignorance, leaving issues of injustice against the Stolen Generations unresolved. The paper argues that, despite an emotive national apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008, this may also be the fate of the Bringing Them Home Report.