Fighting words : writing about race / Raymond Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Raymond.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Historiography.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Government relations.

Race relations.

History.

Historiography.

Australia--Race relations--History.

Australia.

Physical Description:

xiv, 277 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Queensland, Australia : University of Queensland Press, 1999.

Contents:

Introduction: Leaps in the Dark 1

Part I Writing Racial Conflict 19

The Owl and the Eagle': The Significance of Race in Colonial Queensland 34

The Mogwi Take Mi-an-jin: Race Relations and the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, 1824-1842 48

Night of Broken Glass: The Anatomy of an Anti-Chinese Riot 79

'Our Vengeant Hand': Anti-Germanism in Queensland During World War I 95

Part II Writing Racial Exclusion 109

'A Permanent Precedent': Dispossession, Social Control and the Fraser Island Reserve and Mission, 1897-1904 123

'The Duty We Owe ...': Aborigines and State Control in Queensland, 1915-1957 147

Part III Writing Race, Gender and Labour Relations 167

Kings in Brass Crescents: Defining Aboriginal Labour Patterns in Colonial Queensland 180

'Don't You Remember Black Alice, Sam Holt?': Aboriginal Women in Queensland History 201

'Fallen Among Thieves': Aboriginal Labour and State Control in Interwar Queensland 215

Epilogue: 'Remembering Tomorrow' 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0702231096

OCLC:

42469115