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The politics of identity : who counts as Aboriginal today? / Bronwyn Carlson.

The politics of identity : who counts as Aboriginal today? / Bronwyn Carlson.
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ISBN 9781922059963 (paperback)
Author Carlson, Bronwyn (author.)
Title The politics of identity : who counts as Aboriginal today? / Bronwyn Carlson.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Canberra, A.C.T. Aboriginal Studies Press, 2016.
©2016
Description vi, 294 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1.Constructing the Aborigine -- 2. Positioning ‘part-Aboriginal’ people -- 3. Challenging the colonial Aborigine -- 4. Quantifying Aboriginality by acculturation, adaptation and allegiance -- 5. The changing meaning of Aboriginal identity -- 6. Shifts in the social and political context -- 7. Discovering and reconstructing Aboriginal identity -- 8. Beyond the discourse -- 9. Confirmation of Aboriginality -- 10. Conflict, community and the regulation of Aboriginal identity -- 11. Community discourse on the Confirmation of Aboriginality and Aboriginal identity: a case study -- 12. Researching the politics of identity -- 13. Identity journeys: when Aboriginal heritage was always known -- 14. Identity journeys: discovering Aboriginal heritage -- 15. The continuing contest over the definition of Aboriginal identity -- 16. Learning and performing an Aboriginal identity -- 17. Tensions at the cultural interface -- 18. Aboriginal identity, community and social media.
Summary This award-winning work explores the complexities surrounding contemporary Aboriginal identity. Drawing on a range of historical and research literature, interviews and surveys, The Politics of Identity explores Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal understandings of Aboriginality and the way these concepts are produced and reproduced across a range of sites and contexts. Carlson discusses the multiple, yet narrow definitions of Aboriginal identity that have existed throughout Australias colonial history and its continuing impact upon contemporary Aboriginal identities. Emphasizing Indigenous debates and claims about Aboriginality, the work explores both the community and external tensions around appropriate measures of identity and the pressures and effects of identification. An analysis of online Indigenous communities on social media that have emerged as sites of contestation adds to the growing knowledge in this area, both nationally and globally. This is a brave and personal contribution to the often vexed subject of Aboriginal identity and offers a distinctive and fresh line of analysis
Subjects Identity politics -- Australia
Aboriginal Australians -- Identity
Indigenous peoples -- Ethnic identity
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