459478.pdf

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 trap...

Πλήρης περιγραφή

Λεπτομέρειες βιβλιογραφικής εγγραφής
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: ANU Press 2013
Διαθέσιμο Online:http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/aboriginal-history/racial_citation
id oapen-20.500.12657-33644
record_format dspace
spelling oapen-20.500.12657-336442022-04-26T12:23:40Z Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Centrury Aboriginal Family Briscoe, Gordon politics and government australia aboriginal australians history biography Alice Springs Bernard Smith (organ builder) Half-caste Indigenous Australians bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government 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. 2013-11-14 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:52:48Z 2020-04-01T14:52:48Z 2010 book 459478 OCN: 501814222 9781921666216 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33644 eng Aboriginal History Monograph application/pdf n/a 459478.pdf http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/aboriginal-history/racial_citation ANU Press 10.26530/OAPEN_459478 10.26530/OAPEN_459478 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781921666216 20 226 Canberra open access
institution OAPEN
collection DSpace
language English
description 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.
title 459478.pdf
spellingShingle 459478.pdf
title_short 459478.pdf
title_full 459478.pdf
title_fullStr 459478.pdf
title_full_unstemmed 459478.pdf
title_sort 459478.pdf
publisher ANU Press
publishDate 2013
url http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/aboriginal-history/racial_citation
_version_ 1771297392932421632