Rights for Aborigines

ISBN-13: 9780367719272 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 424 str.

Bain Attwood

Opis

At a time of heated debate about the history of black-white relations in Australia, comes this ground-breaking account by one of our most respected historians of the struggle for Aboriginal rights.

Spis treści

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Blacks

1 My father's country

2 Clamouring for the right to a little of their father's land

3 A memorial of death

Part II: Whites

4 The public conscience

5 That I might tell the true story of these people

Part III: Citizenship

6 A place in the community as workers and citizens

7 Equal rights, equal rights

8 To be recognised as a race of people

Part IV: Land

9 This aboriginal people's place

10 Where the ancestors walked

Part V: Power

11 Still me talk long Gurindji

12 From time immemorial

13 Thinking black

Notes

Bibliographical notes

Index

O autorze

Bain Attwood is Associate Professor of History at Monash University and a leading scholar in cross-cultural history. He is author of The Making of the Aborigines and editor of In the Age of Mabo, Telling Stories and Frontier Conflict.