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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Thinking Black : William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines'League
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'Thinking Black tells the story of Cooper and the Australian Aborigines’ League, and their campaign for Aboriginal people’s rights. Through petitions to government, letters to other campaigners and organisations, and entreaties to friends and well-wishers, Thinking Black reveals their passionate struggle against dispossession and displacement, the denial of rights, and their fight to be citizens in their own country.'

'Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus document the circumstances behind the most significant moments in Cooper’s political career — his famous petition to King George V in 1933, his call for a ‘Day of Mourning’ in 1938, the walk-off from Cummeragunja in 1939 and his opposition to an Aboriginal regiment in 1939. It explores the principles Cooper drew on in his campaigning, not least his ‘Letter from an Educated Black’, surely one of the most intriguing political testaments written by an Australian leader.'

'Thinking Black sheds new light on the history of what it has meant to be Aboriginal in modern Australia. It reveals the rich and varied cultural traditions, both Aboriginal and British, religious and secular, that have informed Aboriginal people’s battle for justice, and their vision of equality in Australia of two peoples: equal yet distinct.' (Source: Publisher's website)

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  • Includes a collection of primary-source material: documents mostly by Cooper.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,: Aboriginal Studies Press , 2004 .
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      Extent: ix, 144 p.p.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliography.
      ISBN: 0855754591

Works about this Work

[Review] Thinking Black : William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League Ravi De Costa , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , March vol. 1 no. 1 2006;

— Review of Thinking Black : William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines'League Bain Attwood , Andrew Markus , 2004 single work biography
[Review] Thinking Black : William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League Ravi De Costa , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Winter vol. 19 no. 2 2004; (p. 225-226)

— Review of Thinking Black : William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines'League Bain Attwood , Andrew Markus , 2004 single work biography
Academic Contribution to Black History David Langsam , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Jewish News , 29 October vol. 71 no. 7 2004; (p. 20)

— Review of Thinking Black : William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines'League Bain Attwood , Andrew Markus , 2004 single work biography
Academic Contribution to Black History David Langsam , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Jewish News , 29 October vol. 71 no. 7 2004; (p. 20)

— Review of Thinking Black : William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines'League Bain Attwood , Andrew Markus , 2004 single work biography
[Review] Thinking Black : William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League Ravi De Costa , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , March vol. 1 no. 1 2006;

— Review of Thinking Black : William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines'League Bain Attwood , Andrew Markus , 2004 single work biography
[Review] Thinking Black : William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League Ravi De Costa , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Winter vol. 19 no. 2 2004; (p. 225-226)

— Review of Thinking Black : William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines'League Bain Attwood , Andrew Markus , 2004 single work biography
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