The city's outback / Gillian Cowlishaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cowlishaw, Gillian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.).

Aboriginal Australians.

Economic conditions.

Ethnicity.

Public opinion.

Social conditions.

Australia.

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--Social conditions.

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--Public opinion.

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--Ethnic identity.

Aboriginal Australians--Treatment--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.).

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--Economic conditions.

Sydney (N.S.W.)--Attitudes.

Sydney (N.S.W.).

Sydney (N.S.W.)--Social conditions.

Sydney (N.S.W.)--Public opinion.

Sydney (N.S.W.)--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

vii, 264 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Sydney : UNSW Press, 2009.

Summary:

While Aborigines everywhere are familiar with whitefellas, the ordinary lives of Aboriginal Australians are largely concealed from the urban majority. Despite their symbolic presence and the fame of Indigenous art, and despite the familiar claim that Aborigines are the most researched people in the world, they are mainly 'known’ through shocking images, worrying statistics and concerned reports that flood the press.

Set in the western suburbs of Sydney, that discomforting backyard of a rich cosmopolitan city that would rather not know about its western progeny, The City's Outback illustrates deep struggles within the Indigenous world about why and how being a blackfella matters, about the past living in the present.

Drawing from transcripts of autobiographical recordings and years of dedicated and close-grained research, Gillian Cowlishaw follows the fraught, exciting and painful process of getting to know 'others’ - the intimacy of the encounter, engagement, and the practical and ethical dilemmas of research.

Contents:

1 Talking under water 14

2 Finding informants 38

3 History hurts 68

4 Writing reconciliation 101

5 Living skills 129

6 Authenticity 160

7 Being Frank 191

8 In conclusion 219.

Notes:

"A UNSW Press book"-- T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781921410871

1921410876

OCLC:

268797204