The colonial fantasy : why white Australia can't solve Black problems / Sarah Maddison.
Publisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: xliii, 290 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781760295820
- Colonial fantasy : why white Australia can not solve black problems
- Race relations
- Government policy - Self determination
- Social identity - Aboriginality
- Race relations -- Political aspects
- Intervention (Federal government) -- Northern Territory
- Australia -- Race relations
- Race relations -- Australia
- Uluru Statement from the Heart (2017)
- Intervention (Federal government) -- Australia -- Northern Territory
- Intervention (Federal government)
- Race relations
- Reconciliation
- Torres Strait Islanders -- Social conditions
- Torres Strait Islanders -- Social conditions
- Reconciliation
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
- Racism -- Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity
- Australia -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects
- Australia
- Northern Territory
- Australia -- Race relations
- 305.89915 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 305.89915 MAD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | Signed by the author. | 90752 |
Signed by the author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: Who is Indigenous? Who are settlers -- Introduction: Australia's settler problem -- Recognition -- Self-determination -- Representation -- Land -- Intervention -- Incarceration -- Closing the gap -- Reconciliation -- Appendix: Understanding Australian settler colonialism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes.
Australia is wreaking devastation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Whatever the policy--from protection to assimilation, self-determination to intervention, reconciliation to recognition--government has done little to improve the quality of life of Indigenous people. In far too many instances, interaction with governments has only made Indigenous lives worse. Despite this, many Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders and commentators still believe that working with the state is the only viable option. The result is constant churn and reinvention in Indigenous affairs, as politicians battle over the 'right' approach to solving Indigenous problems. The Colonial Fantasy considers why Australia persists in the face of such obvious failure. It argues that white Australia can't solve black problems because white Australia is the problem. Australia has resisted the one thing that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people want, and the one thing that has made a difference elsewhere: the ability to control and manage their own lives. It calls for a radical restructuring of the relationship between black and white Australia.
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