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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1992, Whitefella Comin' depicts life at Doomadgee, an Aboriginal settlement administered by Brethren missionaries from the early 1930s until 1983. In addressing the structures and processes of power relations between Aborigines and Whites, the author develops an analysis of resistance and accommodation on the part of Aboriginal people.
Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations and conventions; 1. Doomadgee: the politics of colonial social relations; 2. 'Wild time': a history of coercion and resistance; 3. Station and fringe-dwelling life; 4. Doomadgee mission: institutionalisation and a new form of colonial struggle; 5. Whitefella comin': power relations and the different domains; 6. Politics and identity within the Aboriginal domain; 7. Authority relations, the missionary staff and Aboriginal consciousness; 8. Councillors, 'Yellafellas' and the influence of colonial ideology; 9. Christianity, domination and resistance; 10. Coercion, resistance and accommodation in colonial social relations; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
