Aboriginal Studies Press imprint: 41 books
'Against Native Title'
Conflict and Creativity in Outback Australia
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
‘Against native title' is about one group's lived experience of a divisive native title claim in the outback town of Ceduna, where the native title claims process has thoroughly reorganized local Aboriginal identities over the course of the past decade. The central character in this story is senior...
Coranderrk
We will show the country
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The battle for Coranderrk was one of the first sustained campaigns for justice, land rights and self-determination. Proud of their culture, their community and their award-winning farm, the Kulin people (led by William Barak) lobbied against the Aboriginal Protection Board and greedy local landowners,...
Kangkushot
The Life of Nyamal Lawman Peter Coppin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
An updated edition of an epic and remarkable story, this is the powerful and moving history in which Peter Coppin, or Kangkushot, remembers his life in Western Australia’s Pilbara region and his involvement in the first strike of Aboriginal workers in the nation’s history. A senior Nyamal lawman,...
The 1967 Referendum
Race, Power and the Australian Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
On 27 May 1967 a remarkable event occurred. An overwhelming majority of electors voted in a national referendum to amend clauses of the Australian Constitution concerning Aboriginal people. Today it is commonly regarded as a turning point in the history of relations between Indigenous and white Australians....
Arresting Incarceration
Pathways Out of Indigenous Imprisonment
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Despite sweeping reforms by the Keating government following the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the rate of Indigenous imprisonment has soared. What has gone wrong? In Arresting Incarceration, Don Weatherburn charts the events that led to Royal Commission. He also argues...
Calling the Shots
Aboriginal Photographies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were often produced under unequal and exploitative circumstances. Today, however, such images represent a rich cultural heritage for descendants who can use this archive to explore Aboriginal history, to identify relatives, and to reclaim culture....
White Christ Black Cross
The Emergence of a Black Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Framing the churches’ missionary outreach to Aboriginal people within the reality of frontier violence, government control, segregation, and neglect, this account reveals how Aboriginal people on the missions responded to white Christianity as part of their enforced cultural change. It also tells...
by Doreen Kartinyeri, Sue Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
An Aboriginal insider's view into Australia's Hindmarsh Island Affair, this remarkable record tells the personal narrative of key Ngarrindjeri spokeswoman, the late Doreen Kartinyeri. Chronicling her victorious battle for the protection of Aboriginal women's sites, this witty memoir reveals Doreen's...
Rob Riley
An Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Set against the tumultuous background of racial politics in an conflicted nation, this book explores Rob Riley's rise and influence as an Aboriginal activist. Drawing on perspectives from history, politics, and psychology, this work explores Rob’s life as a "moral protester" and the challenges he confronted in trying to change the destiny of the country.
Alice's Daughter
Lost Mission Child
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
‘My story is not about blame. It's about sharing history that belongs to all of Australia. I needed a push, but I am happy to finally give little Rhonda a voice, so that my words will live on after I leave this world.' In 1954, aged three, Rhonda Collard-Spratt was taken from her Aboriginal family...
by Joan Martin, Bruce Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The life story of Joan Martin is that of a fierce Aboriginal woman who fought for the rights of her community and her autobiography also tells of the Aboriginal experience in general since World War II. Born in the country town of Morawa, Western Australia, in 1941, Martin led an exciting and adventurous...
Encounters with Indigeneity
Writing about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
For four decades Jeremy Beckett has shone a light on previously marginalised fields of life. While the many went in search of traditional culture’, Beckett was fascinated to learn how people who often lacked wider recognition of their Aboriginality went about their lives. In the process he changed...
Yuendumu Everyday
Contemporary Life in Remote Aboriginal Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Focusing on an isolated community in central Australia, this highly-readable examination presents insights into the cultural underpinnings of indigenous daily life through evocative narratives revolving around five Warlpiri women. The seemingly contradictory realities of a distant hunter-gatherer...
Writing Never Arrives Naked
Early Aboriginal Cultures of Writing in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Playing on both minds and emotions, this academically innovative book reveals the resourceful and often poignant ways that Indigenous Australians involved themselves in the colonists’ paper culture.