Cultural Studies
| BRADY, Maggie Heavy Metal: The Social Meaning of Petrol Sniffing in Australia RRP $24.95 In an attempt to go beyond current explanations of Aboriginal drug abuse, which stereotype these people as 'victims', Brady focuses on understanding the users' subjective decisions to engage in this behaviour... |
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BREEN, Marcus (ed.) Our Place, Our Music: Aboriginal Music: Australian popular music in perspective volume 2 RRP $19.95 Our Place Our Music surveys the latest developments in Aboriginal music across Australia and traces some of the historical influences which have shaped it... |
| COWLISHAW, Gillian and Barry MORRIS (eds) Race Matters: Indigenous Australians and 'Our' Society RRP $34.95 This diverse collection of articles explores the double burden of racial discrimination and the denial of indigenous rights that Australian Aboriginal people continue to carry... |
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DAVIS, Richard (ed.) Woven Histories, Dancing Lives: Torres Strait Islander Identity, Culture and History RRP $39.95 is a collection of essays that communicates the unique histories and cultures of Torres Strait Islanders to a broad audience... |
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HEISS, Dr Anita M Dhuuluu-Yala: To Talk Straight RRP $34.95 'Dhuuluu-Yala' is a Wiradjuri phrase meaning ‘to talk straight’ and this book is straight talk about publishing Indigenous literature in Australia. It also includes broader issues that writers need to consider... |
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MAGOWAN, Fiona & Karl NEUENFELDT (eds) |
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MORETON-ROBINSON, Aileen Whitening Race: Essays in social and cultural criticism RRP $34.95 With its focus on Australia, this book engages with relations between migration, Indigenous dispossession and whiteness. It creates a new intellectual space that investigates the nature of racialised conditions and their role in reproducing colonising relations in Australia... |
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NELSON, Emmanuel S. (ed.) Connections: essays on black literatures RRP $12.95 A collection of eight essays presented at the International Conference on Black Literatures at the University of Queensland in 1986. The essays focus on Aboriginal literature, including the writings of David Unaipon, Jack Davis,... |
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VAN TOORN, Penny Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal cultures of writing in Australia RRP $39.95 In Writing Never Arrives Naked, Penny van Toorn engages our minds and hearts. Her academically innovative book reveals the resourceful and often poignant ways that Indigenous Australians involved themselves in the coloniser’s paper culture. The first Aboriginal readers were children stolen from the clans around Sydney Harbour. The first Aboriginal author was Bennelong—a stolen adult. |