Rights for Aborigines

ISBN-13: 9781864489835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 424 str.

Bain Attwood

Opis

Drawing on oral and documentary sources, this study of the Aboriginal struggle for equal standing in Australian society focuses on rapidly changing perceptions of race and history. Prominent Aboriginal leaders are profiled as well as the key historical events that have come to motivate both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal campaigners. During a time of heated debate about minority rights in Australia, this book illuminates the dramatic history that has preceded current questions.

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.