Tag: Aboriginal Studies Press

  • Love Against the Law: The autobiographies of Tex and Nelly Camfoo Aboriginal Studies Press 2000 120 pages 240×170 mm ISBN 9780855753481 Tex Camfoo Nelly Camfoo Edited by: Gillian Cowlishaw During his life, Tex Camfoo has been classified as Aboriginal, half-caste and European. As a half-caste he could not legally associate with or marry an Aboriginal…

  • Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in ‘settled’ Australia Aboriginal Studies Press 1988; Reprinted 1991 288 pages 240×170 mm ISBN: 9780855751852 Edited by: Ian Keen, Visiting Fellow School of Archaeology and Anthropology College of Arts and Social Sciences The Australian National University This volume brings together results of research by anthropologists on the social life of people…

  • Born a Half-Caste Aboriginal Studies Press 1990 (revised edition) 78 pages 210 x1 50mm, b/w illus Paperback ISBN: 9780855751609 Margaret (Marnie) Kennedy (1919–1985) Marnie Kennedy was born in 1919 ‘on the bank of Coppermine Creek’. Her story takes us from her birthplace in Western Queensland, to Palm Island where she grew up ‘under the Act’,…

  • Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation Aboriginal Studies Press September 2011 288 pages 230 x 152mm; b/w Illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780855757793 Russell McGregor, Associate Professor of History James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle four decades of…