Talkin' Up to the White Woman : Aboriginal Women and Feminism
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2000
Z1009223
2000
single work
criticism
(taught in 8 units)
In this important and beautifully written book, Aileen Moreton-Robinson gives us a compelling analysis of white Australian feminism seen through Indigenous Australian women's eyes. She unpacks the unspoken normative subject of feminism as white middle-class woman, where whitemess marks their position of power and privilege vis-a-vis Indigenous women, and where silence about whitemess sustains the exercise of that power. And she examines the consequences of practices for Indigenous women and White women.' (Source: Preface, Talkin' Up to the White Women, 2000)
'Well I Heard It on the Radio and I Saw It on the Television' : An Essay for the Australian Film Commission on the Politics and Aesthetics of Filmmaking by and about Aboriginal People and Things
North Sydney
:
Australian Film Commission
,
1993
Z1645838
1993
single work
criticism
(taught in 8 units)
Marcia Langton analyses the making and watching of films, videos and TV programs by Aboriginal people in remote and settled Australia. She introduces theoretical perspectives to investigate concepts of Aboriginality and presents case studies of films such as Jedda, Tracey Moffat's Night Cries, Brian Syron's Jindalee Lady and Ned Lander and Rachel Perkin's film of the Warlpiri Fire Ceremony Jardiwarnpa. The central requirement is to develop a body of knowledge on representation of Aboriginal people and their concerns in art, film, television or other media and a critical perspective to do with aesthetics and politics, drawing from Aboriginal world views, from western traditions and from history.
Blacklines : Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians
Michèle Grossman
(editor),
Carlton
:
Melbourne University Press
,
2003
Z1072525
2003
anthology
criticism
essay
(taught in 11 units)
Students who complete this subject will:
1. develop racial literacy with the ability to critically evaluate multiple modes of race representation and articulate the strategies utilised in the operation of specific representations of Indigenous Australians and white Australians;
2. appreciate the complexities and power of race representation in impacting on the formation of nation, history and political and public issues in Australia and on personal levels of constructing their own racial locations, cultural identities, ideologies and social experiences;
3. gain a nuanced understanding of how racial hierarchies and investments are reinforced or countered through representations of Indigeneity and whiteness;
4. understand conceptual tools and key theoretical issues involved in critical race studies and the politics of representation.
