{"id":27559,"date":"2013-01-14T17:41:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T17:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27559"},"modified":"2016-06-28T01:57:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T01:57:59","slug":"love-against-the-law-the-autobiographies-of-tex-and-nelly-camfoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27559","title":{"rendered":"Love Against the Law: The autobiographies of Tex and Nelly Camfoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/aiatsis.gov.au\/publications\/products\/love-against-law-autobiographies-tex-and-nelly-camfoo\/paperback\" target=\"_blank\">Love Against the Law: The autobiographies of Tex and Nelly Camfoo<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aiatsis.gov.au\/aboriginal-studies-press\" target=\"_blank\">Aboriginal Studies Press<\/a><br \/>\n2000<br \/>\n120 pages<br \/>\n240&#215;170 mm<br \/>\nISBN 9780855753481<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tex Camfoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nelly Camfoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edited by:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gillian Cowlishaw<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aiatsis.gov.au\/publications\/products\/love-against-law-autobiographies-tex-and-nelly-camfoo\/paperback\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/aiatsis.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/portrait_small\/public\/view_images\/products\/love-against-the-law-cover.jpg?itok=s4hf8JFJ\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During his life, Tex Camfoo has been classified as Aboriginal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=440\" target=\"_blank\">half-caste<\/a> and European. As a half-caste he could not legally associate with or marry an Aboriginal woman. As an Aboriginal, he was not allowed to visit the pub with his European work mates.<\/p>\n<p>Nelly Camfoo was always considered Aboriginal. From childhood she has taken part in ceremonial life. She finds white people both frustrating and foolish &#8211; &#8216;they can&#8217;t understand because they can&#8217;t listen&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The stories of Tex and Nelly Camfoo intermingle to highlight the ambiguous social position of Aboriginals living in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northern_Territory\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Territory<\/a> during this century. They provide insight into race relations, the contradictory attitudes of missionaries and police, they reflect morality and religion as well as recent political developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love Against the Law: The autobiographies of Tex and Nelly Camfoo Aboriginal Studies Press 2000 120 pages 240&#215;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,4405,394],"tags":[11721,986,13372,13373,13371],"class_list":["post-27559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-oceania","category-socialscience","tag-aboriginal-studies-press","tag-australia","tag-nelly-camfoo","tag-northern-territory","tag-tex-camfoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47999,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559\/revisions\/47999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}