Big white lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia [Book review]

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Griffiths, Phil. 2008. "Big white lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia [Book review]." Labour History: a journal of labour and social history.
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Big white lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia [Book review]

ERA Journal ID34266
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AuthorGriffiths, Phil
Journal TitleLabour History: a journal of labour and social history
Number of Pages3
Year2008
Place of PublicationSydney, Australia
ISSN0023-6942
Abstract

Review of John Fitzgerald, Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia, UNSW Press, 2007.

KeywordsChinese, racism, White Australia, John Fitzgerald
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020430302. Australian history
441013. Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
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C3 Unrefereed book review.
Permanent restricted access to paper due to publisher's copyright restrictions.

Byline AffiliationsSchool of Accounting, Economics and Finance
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