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Illicit love : interracial sex and marriage in the United States and Australia

by Ann McGrath

This comparative study explores interracial love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler colonisers in Australia and the United States from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, and how these relationships challenged colonial authority.

Accession 11712 ISBN 9780803238251 Publisher University of Nebraska Press
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