Front cover image for Rednecks, eggheads, and blackfellas : a study of racial power and intimacy in Australia

Rednecks, eggheads, and blackfellas : a study of racial power and intimacy in Australia

Print Book, English, ©1999
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©1999
xix, 352 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
9780472086481, 9781865080765, 0472086480, 1865080764
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1. Fields of Enquiry
Finding a field
Gathering data?
Outrageous fortune
Single 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 places
Race relations
5. Racial Intimacies
Bureaucratic savagery
Close relations
Intimates and enemies
6. A New Modernism
Hasluck's final solution
Leaving Mainoru
7. Betrayals
Forgetting the past
Foot walking to Bulman
8. A Viable Enterprise
Imagined communities
Managing strategies
Liberal pluralism and difference
9. Enjoying Democracy
Material modernity
Governing autonomy
A whole way of struggle
Conclusion: Palimpsest Processes