Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia,
1780–1940, Revised Edition is a sociohistorical tour de force that
examines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual
constructs within settler colonialism in the United States and
Australia from the Age of Revolution to the Great Depression.
Gregory D. Smithers historicizes the dissemination and application
of scientific and social-scientific ideas within the process of
nation building in two countries with large Indigenous populations
and shows how intellectual constructs of race and sexuality were
mobilized to subdue Aboriginal peoples. Building on the comparative
settler-colonial and imperial histories that appeared after the
book's original publication, this completely revised edition
includes two new chapters. In this singular contribution to the
study of transnational and comparative settler colonialism,
Smithers expands on recent scholarship to illuminate both the
subject of the scientific study of race and sexuality and the
national and interrelated histories of the United States and
Australia.
