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- Title: Turning Aboriginal--Historical Bents (Essay)
- Author : Borderlands
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 350 KB
Description
Under the pressures of binary identity politics the search for Aboriginal identity among people of mixed descent has become a Russian roulette that may end up with a public hanging where those with a larger public profile draw a bigger crowd. This essay explores the historical dimensions that underpin confusion and uncertainty: changing definitions of Aboriginality and the external, often discretionary, imposition of identity. Historical case studies illustrate that a certain slippage was always part and parcel of the quest to define who is, and who is not, considered as Aboriginal. Introduction