Indigenous and other Australians since 1901 / Tim Rowse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowse, Tim, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--History--20th century.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--History--21st century.

Aboriginal Australians--Government policy.

Aboriginal Australians--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Sydney, New South Wales : UNSW Press, 2017.

Summary:

As Australia became a nation in 1901, no-one anticipated that ‘Aboriginal affairs'would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not ‘dying out'as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and – along with Torres Strait Islanders – they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's interventions into family life and continuing dispossession. Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901 narrates their recovery – not only in numbers but in cultural confidence and critical self-awareness. Pointing to Indigenous leaders, it also reassesses the contribution of government and mission ‘protection'policies and the revised definitions of ‘Aboriginal'. Timothy Rowse explains why Australia has conceded a large Indigenous Land and Sea Estate since the 1960s, and argues that the crisis in ‘self-determination'since 2000 has been fuelled by Indigenous critique of the selves that they have become. As Indigenous people put themselves at the centre of arguments about their future, this book could not be more timely.

Contents:

Introduction: Deakin surveys the continent 1. Missions and the state in North Australia 2. Knowing and ruling Northern Aborigines 3. Governments, churches, parents, spouses and children, 18971940 4. Did `protection' protect? 5. Global awareness and the recession of race 6. World Wars and the Cold War 7. Towards racial equality 8. From the referendum to `self-determination' 9. The Indigenous Estate in Land and Sea 10. Asserting `Southern' Aboriginality 11. The Indigenous middle class 12. Family, community and the crisis of self-determination Epilogue: Within a single field of life.

Notes:

Description based on print record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781742244075

1742244076

9781742235578