This unit explores the interactions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians from the 1750s to the present. It provides students with background in the nineteenth century context before moving through some of the key developments of the twentieth century. Included here is empire, environment and race; land; political resistance; the impact of Christianity and the missions; the role of the law; protection; assimilation; labour and sexual relations; anthropology; ideology; self-determination; rights; and sovereignty. The unit encourages students to consider history the way Aboriginal people have written, danced, performed, painted and understood it. We consider the legacies of... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Alison Holland
Prerequisites: 12cp or (3cp in HIST or MHIS or POL units)
