Aboriginal Australians : Black Responses to White Dominance, 1788-1994

Second revised edition. pp. 275 illusts #0120 (light age tanning)

Summary of traditional lifeways; first contact in the Sydney region – modes of Gamaraigal resistance; violent conflict on the frontier – Aboriginal tactics; role of the Native Police; attempts at accommodation – failure of kinship and reciprocal relations – alcohol abuse, sexual and work relations, disease, intertribal conflicts, population decline; racial stereotypes on both sides; tensions within Aboriginal society and the decline of its high culture; Aboriginal enterprise – Coranderrk, Raukkan (Point Mcleay) and Maloga; effects of dispersal Acts; institutional racism; the northern frontier, control and influence of missions – Ernabella and Jigalong contrasted; economic and social dependence in the northern cattle industry; pearling; Pilbara strikes – Pinolan, Wave Hill -Gurindji; mining disputes; caste barriers – NSW and Victorian Aborigines in the 1920’s -60’s – employment, education, housing; the ‘culture of poverty’; limitations of racist policies; influence of Anthropology; Aboriginal protest movements; defining the assimilation policy; legislative repeal; self-determination landrights and mining – Ranger agreement; cultural revival; Chapter 12 – summary of contemporary situation for second edition – effects of mining royalties, outstation movement, opposition to land rights; problems of health and community development – Toomelah, racism, bicentennial protest, deaths in custody, Mabo decision; General codes: early cultural contact and history – general; violent conflict – 18th and 19th century; colonisation; general accounts of Aboriginal culture; politics, tribal law and social control – -general; arts – general; change – introduced – Christian; government policy and administration – initial period and protectionism, assimilation, integration and self determination; primary production and Aboriginal pastoral activities; land rights – general; disputes, claims and cases; race relations – discrimination and prejudice; relations and attitudes – White/Aboriginal; housing and community planning – general; education – general; health and disease – general.