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In December 1997, in a small town in rural Australia, a fight broke out among local Aborigines that turned into a full-blown riot when police intervened in force. In Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race, anthropologist Gillian Cowlishaw uses this vivid incident as a means of launching a larger discussion about race, identity, and racialized violence.

• Brings indigenous Australians into the contemporary global race discourse in a lively, highly readable ethnography.
  
• Explores the local and national meanings of a race riot...

In December 1997, in a small town in rural Australia, a fight broke out among local Aborigines that turned into a full-blown riot when police intervened in force. In Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race, anthropologist Gillian Cowlishaw uses this vivid incident as a means of launching a larger discussion about race, identity, and racialized violence.

• Brings indigenous Australians into the contemporary global race discourse in a lively, highly readable ethnography.
  
• Explores the local and national meanings of a race riot...

This lively book brings the reader close to the people from a remote cattle station in far north Australia, where black and white peoples' lives have been intertwined over the span of 80 years. Tracing the humorous, savage and ordinary ways in which race structured intimate and everyday relationships across a great divide, Gillian Cowlishaw makes startling and original arguments about race relations.By investigating specific patterns of interaction on Australia's cultural frontier, Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas illustrates how anthropologists, pastoralists and government officials...

Honest and compelling, this book follows the fraught, exciting, and painful process of getting to know "others"--in this case Australian Aborigines in the suburbs who are already "known" through shocking images and worrying statistics. This book depicts the intimacy of the encounter, explains the practical and ethical dilemmas of research, and discusses the fun of engagement in the city's outback.