| Description |
xiv, 277 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Part I. Writing Racial Conflict: 'The Owl and the Eagle': the significance of race in colonial Queensland; The Mogwi take Mi-an-jin: race relations and the Moreton Bay penal settlement, 1824-1842; Night of broken glass: the anatomy of an anti-Chinese riot; 'Our Vengeant Hand': anti-Germanism in Queensland during World War I -- Part II. Writing Racial Exclusion: 'A Permanent Precedent': dispossession, social control and the Fraser Island Reserve and Mission, 1897-1904; 'The Duty We Owe...': Aborigines and State control in Queensland, 1915-1957 -- Part III. Writing Race, Gender and Labour Relations: Kings in brass crescents: defining Aboriginal labour patterns in colonial Queensland; 'Don't You Remember Black Alice, Sam Holt?': Aboriginal women in Queensland history; 'Falen Among Thieves': Aboriginal labour and State control in inter-war Queensland -- Epilogue: 'Remembering Tomorrow' |
| Summary |
With an open and inquiring intellect, Raymond Evans sets out to uncover a past not studied in the school books of his youth. Growing up in the 1950s, he lived in a community devoid of Aboriginal presence. It was an enclave of Welsh migrant families, with all the rituals and traditions of a faraway "Home". His evolving historical consciousness was fired by the need to connect with these shadowy absences and to engage with his adopted homeland. Interwoven with his personal journey is a revealing selection of race relations histories, which cover a wide arena from the Aboriginal/European conflicts of colonial Queensland to the anti-Chinese riots of 1888 and civilian internment during World War I. Evans also moves beyond frontier conflict into the long period of repressive government control of Aboriginal lives, which prevailed until recent times. In writing on race, gender and labour relations he illustrates how selective history can be my omitting the contribution of Aboriginal labourers, men and women. These form a cricial bridge to understanding the complexities of race relations today |
| Analysis |
Queensland |
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Race relations |
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Aborigines |
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History |
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Federal issue |
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State issue |
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Aboriginal Australians - Civil rights |
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Aboriginal Australians - Treatment of |
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Aboriginal Australians - Ethnic identity |
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Aboriginal Australians - Queensland - History |
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Aboriginal Australians - Government relations |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
| Notes |
Also available online (as at 3/10/11) at: http://www.textqueensland.com.au/item/book/26b8584545411063989e8eded591cefb |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Government relations.
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Historiography.
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| SUBJECT |
Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552 -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Australia -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476 -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Australia -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476
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| Author |
Evans, Raymond.
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| LC no. |
00697740 |
| ISBN |
0702231096 paperback |
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