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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... colonial/racial domination. Both terms—colonial and racial—are crucial here. This is also a text in which the voice of ethnographer and historian are examined and interrogated, but with a light hand, for this book is in no way simply a ...
A study of racial power and intimacy in Australia Gillian Cowlishaw. faced critics of colonial and racist discourses. On the other hand, what does it mean when white scholars draw upon the voices of the colonised within their own texts ...
... colonialism to what one might appropriately name neocolonialism (there is no postcolonialism here). Now, eggheads come ... colonial settlement, disruption and transformation, compressed into a startlingly brief period. Thirdly, voices of ...
... colonial and racial discourses, and the mutation and displacement of the former into the latter. Also critical to note is the actuality that the transition from colonialism to racism is only partial in this instance. Cowlishaw's book ...
... colonial development, assimilation, and self-determination. I am grateful to many people who, sometimes unknowingly, contributed to the long and often interrupted production of this book. At Bulman, Nelly Camfoo, Lorna and Smiler Martin ...
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 |