This monograph reports on research undertaken in the 1970s on the racial attitudes of student teachers to Aborigines. Rewritten in a form accessible to lay readers and academics alike, and presenting the personal experiences and observations which led to its undertaking, it is much more than an artefact of its time. It remains as a 'benchmark' against which to measure changes and progress on what continues to be one of the most enduring and intractable problems facing contemporary Australian society