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claire_melanie's review
5.0
"I find it curious that any text-based historian would consider writing about Aboriginal people without ever engaging with them. I am at a complete loss why any white historian might suppose himself or herself unmarred and unencumbered by his or her own white prejudices."
Thus begins this incredible collection of 17 passionate histories about invasion, resistance and the past in present. They are grouped into five parts - massacres, myths, memory and oral history, identify, myth and memory, and the Stolen Generations and each work cracks open the dominant narrative to expose the complexities that really form the foundations of the Australian settler colonial state. This book is honestly an absolute joy to read and so thought provoking. The passion each historian has for their chosen topic and for elucidating a more nuanced and humanistic understanding of the past and present is absolutely inspiring. I cannot recommend this book enough (available as a free download for students).
Thus begins this incredible collection of 17 passionate histories about invasion, resistance and the past in present. They are grouped into five parts - massacres, myths, memory and oral history, identify, myth and memory, and the Stolen Generations and each work cracks open the dominant narrative to expose the complexities that really form the foundations of the Australian settler colonial state. This book is honestly an absolute joy to read and so thought provoking. The passion each historian has for their chosen topic and for elucidating a more nuanced and humanistic understanding of the past and present is absolutely inspiring. I cannot recommend this book enough (available as a free download for students).
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