TY  - GEN
AU  - Briscoe,Gordon
TI  - Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Centrury Aboriginal Family
SN  - OAPEN_459478
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Canberra
PB  - ANU Press
KW  - Biography & True Stories
KW  - bicssc
KW  - History
KW  - Politics & government
KW  - politics and government
KW  - australia
KW  - aboriginal australians
KW  - history
KW  - biography
KW  - Alice Springs
KW  - Bernard Smith (organ builder)
KW  - Half-caste
KW  - Indigenous Australians
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Briscoe’s grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve ‘the half-caste problem’. It gives life to those generations of Aboriginal people assumed to have no history and whose past labels them only as shadowy figures. Briscoe’s enthralling narrative combines his, and his contemporaries, institutional and family life with a high-level career at the heart of the Aboriginal political movement at its most dynamic time. It also documents the road he travelled as a seventeen year old fireman on the South Australia Railways to becoming the first Aboriginal person to achieve a PhD in history
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33644/1/459478.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33644/1/459478.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33644/1/459478.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26484
ER  -