THE GLOBAL AFRICAN COMMUNITY
R E F E R E N C E N O T E S
MORE BOOKS ON ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA
Compiled by RUNOKO RASHIDI
Greetings Sisters and Brothers,
Hope that all is well. I am now pretty much recovered from our July trip to Aboriginal Australia. The trip was fantastic. For the first time, I heard Aboriginal Australians say that we all come from Africa, and that all Black folks have African roots. Black people truly are on the move.
My health is real good, and and I am now gearing myself up for my late Summer and Fall lectures and travel, and preparing myself for our next big international tour to Southeast Asia in November 2002. I hope that you can come with us. It is called Looking at Southeast Asia through African Eyes: An African-American Cultural Tour. It is a tour for Black folks only as we attempt to look at the world through our eyes and from our experience. It follow previous tours to India and Aboriginal Australia. Next year, we do Fiji, and in 2004 we follow the footsteps of our African Ancestors through Morocco and Moorish Spain. Come with us.
In the meantime, just wanted to let you know that we ran into a ton of books while down under on Aboriginal Australia. I just wish that I could have purchased them all. Problem was Qantas' weight restrictions for luggage. Anyway, here are some of the books that I picked up. You might want to try tracking a few of them down. Believe me when I say that there is a whole lot of written materials on Aboriginal Australians, a number of which are written by the Indigenous people themselves.
Runoko Rashidi, 31 July 2002
MORE BOOKS ON ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA
Attwood, Bain and Andrew Markus. The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights: A Documentary History. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1999.
Elder, Bruce. Blood on the Wattle: Massacres and Maltreatment of Aboriginal Austrlians since 1788. Sydney: New Holland, 1998.
Fletcher, J.J. Clean, Clad and Courteous: A History of Aboriginal Education in New South Wales. Carlton: Southwood Press, 1989.
Fraser, Rosalie. Shadow Child: A Memoir of the Stolen Generations. Maryborough, Victoria: Hale & Iremonger, 1998.
Gilbert, Kevin, editor. Living Black: Blacks Talk to Kevin Gilbert. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978.
McGinness, Joe. Son of Alyandabu: My Fight for Aboriginal Rights. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1991.
Metropolitan Land Council. Footprints on Rock: Aboriginal Art of the Sydney Region. Redfern, Sydney, NSW: Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, 1997.
Quanchi, Max. Pacific People and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Sabbioni, Jennifer et al, editors. Indigenous Australian Voices: A Reader. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
Smith, Heide. Tiwi: The Life and Art of Australia's Tiwi People. Adelaide: J.B. Books, 1999.
Tweedie, Penny. Aboriginal Australians: Spirit of Arnhem Land. Adelaide: J.B. Books, 1998.
Author. "Title" publisher, etc.
Also see: HISTORY NOTES: THE UNRELENTING STRUGGLE OF INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS
and: REFERENCE NOTES: THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ABORIGINAL TASMANIANS - A BIBLIOGRAPHY
and: REFERENCE NOTES: THE BLACK PRESENCE IN AUSTRALIA: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
and: LECTURE NOTES: HEROIC RESISTANCE - THE BLACK PRESENCE IN AUSTRALIA
and: BLACK WAR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TASMANIAN ABORIGINES
and RACE RELATIONS IN AUSTRALIA, SOURCES PERTAINING TO
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