Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas: A study of racial power and intimacy in AustraliaThis lively book brings the reader close to the people from a remote cattle station in far north Australia, where black and white peoples' lives have been intertwined over the span of 80 years. Tracing the humorous, savage and ordinary ways in which race structured intimate and everyday relationships across a great divide, Gillian Cowlishaw makes startling and original arguments about race relations. |
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... assertion and resurgence of that other domain; that is, the 'blackfella way'. The knowledge, in each case, is not merely of facts or events but is a lived understanding of causes, categories and values through which the world comes to ...
... asserts the continuing significance of race. It may seem that the concept of race has been worn out, undermined and ... assert the superiority of women's bodies and in the black power movement where black is more beautiful than pink. If ...
... asserted by progressives everywhere in the 1950s and 1960s. While today the assertion that we are all different is common, socially celebrated differences are confined to the external symbols of culture. But skin colours, like sex ...
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Contents
Opening the Country | |
Civilising the Country | |
Reforming the People | |
Racial Intimacies | |
A New Modernism | |
Betrayals | |
A Viable Enterprise | |
Enjoying Democracy | |
Palimpsest Processes | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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Rednecks, Eggheads, and Blackfellas: A Study of Racial Power and Intimacy in ... Gillian Cowlishaw No preview available - 1999 |
Rednecks, Eggheads, and Blackfellas: A Study of Racial Power and Intimacy in ... Gillian Cowlishaw No preview available - 1999 |