2022 Chinese Australian History Series: Session 2: Chinese Australian Women as Cultural Custodians in White Australia

Event Name
2022 Chinese Australian History Series: Session 2: Chinese Australian Women as Cultural Custodians in White Australia
Date
11 August 2022
Time
04:00 pm - 05:00 pm
Location
Online

Address (Room): NA

Description

Language, food culture, and festivities/ celebrations were the primary ways that interview participants, as mothers, maintained links to ‘homeland’ and instilled a sense of ‘Chineseness’ in their children. Interview participants, who grew up in Australia, also recalled that their own mothers played a similar and central role in what were often, culturally isolated contexts of ‘White Australia’. With their responsibilities for domestic duties such as cooking, cleaning, bearing and raising children, participants’ mothers were often inadvertently charged with maintaining cultural practices within the home and passing down cultural knowledge to children. By uncovering these roles and responsibilities, Dr Kamp will highlight the important contributions of Chinese Australian women to the cultural fabric of their families, but also on a much broader scale, to the development of ‘multicultural’ Australia.

Speakers: Dr Alanna Kamp

Web page: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/iac/Chinese_Australian_History/2022_chinese_australian_history_series_session_2_cultural_custodians_chinese_australian_women_and_cultural_maintenance_in_white_australia

Contact
Name: Sree Chandra

s.chandra@westernsydney.edu.au

Phone: 0401 484 854

School / Department: Institute of Australia and China