Being Whitefella

by GRAHAM DUNCAN (ED)

• ISBN13: 9781863680806
• ISBN10: 1863680802
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Fremantle Arts Center Pr

Summary

Sixteen 'whitefellas' explore their relationship with Aboriginal Australia, looking at events in their own lives which shaped their understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal culture and history. Each contributor has shown a strong interest in the concerns of Aboriginal Australians over many years.In their lively, highly readable, and personal stories these writers share experiences and wrestle with the issues of today, from dispossession and disadvantage, through struggle, to achievement and celebration. Their accounts will, as Sir Ronald Wilson says in his Foreword, 'do much to promote understanding in all sections of the Australian community'.

Table of Contents

Foreword	11	(6)
Sir Ronald Wilson
Introduction	17	(14)
Duncan Graham
Try Listening to the Softer Voices	31	(7)
Bruce Petty
Different Ways of Talking	38	(12)
Teresa Ashforth
Too Many Mingy Buggers	50	(10)
Fred Chaney
Cry for the Lost Chances	60	(9)
Victoria Laurie
Thinking in Australian	69	(9)
Ted Egan
Finding the Heart's Home	78	(6)
Diana Simmonds
A Late Learning	84	(9)
Hal Jackson
No Questions Please, We're Australians	93	(17)
Duncan Graham
Oppression Doesn't Need another Race	110	(9)
Kim Beazley
Portrait of the Historian as a Young Learner	119	(7)
Geoffrey Bolton
Searching for a Black Ancestry	126	(6)
Robert Juniper
The Presence which is Absence	132	(13)
Veronica Brady
A Long, Long Wait Time	145	(6)
Bill Bunbury
Coloured Lenses and Social Relationships	151	(11)
Catherine H Berndt
Thinking in Colour	162	(15)
Myrna Tonkinson
Being White Woman	177	(6)
Judith Wright
Notes on Contributors	183	(2)
Further Reading	185