{"id":9881,"date":"2010-11-01T22:19:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T22:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9881"},"modified":"2011-01-19T02:49:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T02:49:17","slug":"turning-aboriginal%e2%80%94historical-bents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9881","title":{"rendered":"Turning Aboriginal\u2014Historical Bents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.borderlands.net.au\/vol7no2_2008\/ganter_turning.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Turning Aboriginal\u2014Historical Bents<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.borderlands.net.au\" target=\"_blank\">borderlands: e-journal<br \/>\n<\/a>Volume 7, Number 2 (2008)<br \/>\npages 1-19<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/reginaganter.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Regina Ganter<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor, School of Humanities<br \/>\n<em>Griffith University, Queensland, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Under the pressures of binary identity politics the search for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australian_Aborigines\" target=\"_blank\">Aboriginal<\/a> identity among people of mixed descent has become a Russian roulette that may end up with a public hanging where those with a larger public profile draw a bigger crowd. This essay explores the historical dimensions that underpin confusion and uncertainty: changing definitions of Aboriginality and the external, often discretionary, imposition of identity. Historical case studies illustrate that a certain slippage was always part and parcel of the quest to define who is, and who is not, considered as Aboriginal.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borderlands.net.au\/vol7no2_2008\/ganter_turning.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning Aboriginal\u2014Historical Bents borderlands: e-journal Volume 7, Number 2 (2008) pages 1-19 Regina Ganter, Associate Professor, School of Humanities Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Under the pressures of binary identity politics the search for Aboriginal identity among people of mixed descent has become a Russian roulette that may end up with a public hanging where those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,125,8,4405],"tags":[986,4317,4316],"class_list":["post-9881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-oceania","tag-australia","tag-borderlands","tag-regina-ganter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881","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=9881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}