Rights for Aborigines

by Attwood, Bain

• ISBN13: 9781864489835
• ISBN10: 1864489839
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Bain Attwood is an associate professor of history at Monash University.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	vi
Acknowledgments	viii
Introduction	x
Part I: Blacks	1	(78)
1 My father's country	3	(28)
2 Clamouring for the right to a little of their fathers' land	31	(23)
3 A memorial of death	54	(25)
Part II: Whites	79	(50)
4 The public conscience	81	(21)
5 That I might tell the true story of these people	102	(27)
Part III: Citizenship	129	(84)
6 A place in the community as workers and citizens	131	(30)
7 Equal rights, equal rights	161	(32)
8 To be recognised as a race of people	193	(20)
Part IV: Land	213	(42)
9 This aboriginal people's place	215	(22)
10 Where the ancestors walked	237	(18)
Part V: Power	255	(95)
11 Still me talk long Gurindji	257	(26)
12 From time immemorial	283	(24)
13 Thinking black	307	(43)
Notes	350	(36)
Bibliographical notes	386	(12)
Index	398