Introduction. Cultural racism / Barry Morris and Gillian Cowlishaw. I. Race and Cultural Representations. 1. 'Nothing has changed': the making and unmaking of Koori culture / Tony Birch -- 2. The journey to the Centre / Julie Marcus -- 3. Rousseau's Knot: the entanglement of liberal democracy and racism / Roberta James -- 4. Rum, seduction and death: 'Aboriginality' and alcohol / Marcia Langton. II. Cultural Borderlands. 5. The 'Breelong Blacks' / Marilyn Wood -- 6. Australia Felix rules OK! / Deborah Bird Rose -- 7. Mrs Eyers is no ogre / Merridy Malin. III. Racism and Egalitarianism. 8. Racism, egalitarianism and Aborigines / Barry Morris -- 9. Where is racism? / Gillian Cowlishaw -- 10. The ethics of the allocation of health resources / Ian Anderson -- 11. Mabo: towards respecting equality and difference / Noel Peterson. IV. Aborigines in the National Imagination. 12. Aborigines and contemporary Australian nationalism: primordiality and the cultural politics of otherness / Andrew Lattas. Afterword. 'Tell them you're Indian' / Mudrooroo