Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family
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Briscoe’s grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve ‘the half-caste problem’. It gives life to those generations of Aboriginal people assumed to have no history and whose past labels them only as shadowy...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Briscoe, Gordon | |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-10T22:39:52Z | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-921666216 (online) | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/57371 | |
dc.description.abstract | Briscoe’s grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve ‘the half-caste problem’. It gives life to those generations of Aboriginal people assumed to have no history and whose past labels them only as shadowy figures. Briscoe’s enthralling narrative combines his, and his contemporaries, institutional and family life with a high-level career at the heart of the Aboriginal political movement at its most dynamic time. It also documents the road he travelled as a seventeen year old fireman on the South Australia Railways to becoming the first Aboriginal person to achieve a PhD in history. | |
dc.format.extent | xxiv, 226 pages | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | |
dc.publisher | ANU ePress | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Aboriginal History monograph: No. 20 | |
dc.relation.isversionof | 1st Edition | |
dc.rights | Author/s retain copyright | |
dc.title | Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family | |
dc.type | Book | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.description.refereed | Yes | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 160399 - Demography not elsewhere classified | |
local.identifier.absfor | 210301 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u9406909xPUB397 | |
local.publisher.url | http://press.anu.edu.au/ | |
local.type.status | Metadata only | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Briscoe, Gordon, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.22459/RF.02.2010 | |
local.identifier.absseo | 970116 - Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-09T10:55:12Z | |
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublication | Canberra, ACT, Australia | |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access via publisher website | |
Collections | ANU Press (1965-Present) |
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