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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... ceremony, for instance, does not hybridise with Christian ritual. The struggles to establish forms of autonomy under new conditions can facilitate incorporation in the new structures; or the smothering power of the palimpsest can be ...
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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 |