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Introduction: Representing Racial Issues
Author(s) -
Cowlishaw Gillian
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1834-4461
pISSN - 0029-8077
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1993.tb02416.x
Subject(s) - anachronism , legitimacy , race (biology) , colonialism , politics , white (mutation) , context (archaeology) , drama , power (physics) , sociology , field (mathematics) , gender studies , environmental ethics , history , aesthetics , political science , archaeology , law , art , visual arts , biochemistry , chemistry , quantum mechanics , physics , philosophy , mathematics , gene , pure mathematics
This paper seeks to show why there is a need to theorise race relations as a feature of white Australia's culture and as the context of Aboriginal lives. The violent drama of racial politics as glimpsed on the public media and as experienced by black communities all over the country, demands analytic attention. Anthropologists were once the experts on race, before the field lost its legitimacy. If we turn our attention to exposing the forms of colonial power that saturate Aboriginal social life, Australian anthropology may be saved from becoming an anachronism.