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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... women's camp 2 Opening the Country Finding the Bulman story Boundaries Pastoralists 3 Civilising the Country Establishing civility The primitive past and proletarian future Experts 4 Reforming the People Labour relations People in their ...
... woman. Cowlishaw seeks in this book to position herself clearly, critically, and forcefully within contemporary Australian race relations. This is, then, a text whose author refuses to avoid taking controversial stands. In any treatment ...
... women and men, primarily of the Rembarrnga community. For example, Cowlishaw quotes a man, Ronnie Martin, speaking ... woman who was key to Cowlishaw's coming to comprehension of the history about which she is writing. Camfoo sums up the ...
... women, but the feminine, the softness, the tears and intimate humour, the warmth and the nurturing. Love between black and white people, for instance, and love of brown children, has had no place in the important tasks of recording ...
... women, many of them engaged in the pastoral industry. Others were public servants, protectors of Aborigines, patrol officers and more recently state officials whose presence has increased over the decades. Today the main focus of race ...
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 |