Aboriginal Studies Press imprint: 41 books

'Against Native Title'

Conflict and Creativity in Outback Australia

by Eve Vincent
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

by Giordano Nanni, Andrea James
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

by Jolly Read, 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

by Bain Attwood, Andrew Markus
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

by Don Weatherburn
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

by Jane Lydon
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

by Noel Loos
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

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

by Quentin Beresford
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

by Rhonda Collard-Spratt, Jacki Ferro
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

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

by Jeremy Beckett
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

by Yasmine Musharbash
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

by Penny van Toorn
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.
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