424 Pages
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Routledge
424 Pages
by
Routledge
424 Pages
by
Routledge
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'We cannot help but wonder why it has taken the white Australians just on 200 years to recognise us as a race of people' Bill Onus, 1967 Aboriginal people were the original landowners in Australia, yet this was easily forgotten by Europeans settling this old continent. Labelled as a primitive and dying race, by the end of the nineteenth century most Aborigines were denied the right to vote, to... Read more
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
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
Biography
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.
