Blacks, Chinks and a Pig-Headed German

Abstract

British men of the mid-nineteenth century not only took their gender practices to the Queensland and British Columbian frontiers, they took their racial beliefs as well. One of the things British Columbia and Queensland had in common in the mid-nineteenth century was large Indigenous populations. Like George Carrington and Edmund Hope Verney, most white commentators had very little to say about Indigenous people that was favourable. Not only were Indigenous people in general racially denigrated, the masculinity of Indigenous men was contrasted with and found wanting against white hegemonic standards.