Gary Foley's Recommended Lists of Further Reading

For those who might be interested in further pursuing a better understanding of Australian history,
below is a bibliography of recommended further reading material.

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Note: Books in red type: Highly Recommended

Bibliography



Aborigines Advancement League, Victims or Victors?: The Story of the Victorian Aborigines Advancement League, Hyland House, Melbourne, 1985.

Aboriginal Medical Service, AMS: A Political History, Redfern AMS 20th Anniversary Book, Sydney: Redfern AMS, 1991.

ATSIC, Review of the operation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989: Report to the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, ATSIC, Canberra, 1998.

Auditor-General, The, Special Audit Report: The Aboriginal Development Commission and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, AGPS, Canberra, 1989.

Elizabeth Adler, Anwar Barkat, Bena-Silu, Quince Duncan, Pauline Webb, Justice for Aboriginal Australians: Report of the World Council of Churches team visit to the Aborigines June 15 to July 3 1981, Australian Council of Churches, Sydney, 1981. ISBN 085821 028.

Anderson, M., "Michael Anderson", in Colin Tatz, (ed), Black Viewpoints: The Aboriginal Experience, Sydney, Australia & New Zealand Book Co., 1975.

Atkinson, Wayne, Essay, Koori Self Determination in Victoria: Reality or Myth, 19 Jan. 1996.

Attwood, B. & Arnold, J. (Eds) Power, Knowledge and Aborigines, Special edition of Journal of Australian Studies, La Trobe University Press, Melbourne, 1992.

Attwood, Bain, & Andrew Markus, (Eds.) The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights: A Documentary History, Allen & Unwin, Melbourne, 1999.

Attwood, B. & Arnold, J. (Eds) Power, Knowledge and Aborigines, Special edition of Journal of Australian Studies, La Trobe University Press, Melbourne, 1992.

Attwood, Bain, & Andrew Markus, (Eds.) The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights: A Documentary History, Allen & Unwin, Melbourne, 1999.

Attwood, Bain, The making of the Aborigines, St. Leonards, Allen & Unwin, 1989.

Attwood, Bain, (ed), In the Age of Mabo:History, Aborigines and Australia, St. Leonards, Allen & Unwin, 1996.

Bandler, Faith, Turning the Tide: A personal history of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1989.

Bennett, Scott, Aborigines and Political Power, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1991.

Berndt, RM (Ed) Aborigines and Change: Australia in the '70s, New Jersey, 1977.

Black Panthers of Australia, "Platform and Programme" 1970, Riley & Ephemera Collection, State Library of Victoria.

Bourke, Colin and Helen Cox, "Two Laws: One land", in C.Bourke, E. Bourke, B. Edwards, Aboriginal Australia, UQP, 1994.

Carrington, G. Colonial Adventures and Experiences by a University Man, London: Bell and Daldy, 1871.

Coombs, H.C., Aboriginal Autonomy: Issues and Strategies, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1994.

Coombs, H.C., and C.J. Robinson, "Remembering the Roots: Lessons for ATSIC", in Patrick Sullivan,(Ed.) Shooting the Banker: Essays on ATSIC and Self-Determination, North Australia Research Unit, ANU, Darwin, 1996.

Cowlishaw, Gillian, and Barry Morris, (eds.), Race Matters, Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1997.

Cowlishaw, Gillian, "Studying Aborigines: Changing Canons in Anthropology and History", in Attwood, B. & Arnold, J. (Eds) Power, Knowledge and Aborigines, Special edition of Journal of Australian Studies, La Trobe University Press, Melbourne, 1992.

Christie, M.F. Aborigines in Colonial Victoria 1835-86, Sydney: Sydney University Press1979.

Coombs, HC Aboriginal Autonomy: Issues and Strategies, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1994.

Coombs, HC, and CJ Robinson, "Remembering the Roots: Lessons for ATSIC", in Patrick Sullivan,(Ed.) Shooting the Banker: Essays on ATSIC and Self-Determination, North Australia Research Unit, ANU, Darwin, 1996.

Crawford, Evelyn, as told to Chris Walsh, Over My Tracks: A Remarkable Life, Melbourne: Penguin, 1993.

Darian-Smith, Kate, Liz Gunner & Sarah Nuttall (eds), Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia, London: Routledge, 1996.

Davidson, Jim, (ed.) Meanjin, "Aboriginal Issue", Vol. 36, No. 4,  December 1977.

Davis, Jack, Stephen Muecke, Mudrooroo Narogin & Adam Shoemaker, Paperbark: a collection of Black Australian writings, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1990.

Dodson, Michael, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commission: First Report 1993, Canberra: Aust. Govt. Publishing Service, 1993.

Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Aboriginal Statistics 1985, Canberra: Australian Govt Publishing Service, 1986

Elder, Bruce, Blood on the Wattle: Massacres and Maltreatment of Australian Aborigines since 1788, Child & Associates, Frenches Forest (NSW), 1988.

Evatt, Hon. Elizabeth, Review of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Act 1984, AC, 1996.

Forte, Margaret, Flight of an Eagle: The dreaming of Ruby Hammond, Kent Town, Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1995.

Frankenberg, Ruth, White women, race matters: the social construction of whiteness, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,1993.

Franklin, Margaret Ann, Black and White Australians, South Yarra, Heinemann, 1976.

Gale, Fay and Brookman, Alison, Race Relations in Australia-The Aborigines, Sydney, McGraw-Hill, 1975.

Freney, Denis, A Map of Days: Life on the Left, Port Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1991.

Goodall, Heather, Invasion to Embassy:Land in Aboriginal Politics in NSW, 1770-1972, Sydney : Allen and Unwin, 1996.

Griffiths, M., Aboriginal Affairs: A Short History 1788 - 1995, Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1995.

Grimshaw, Patricia, Marlyn Lake, Anne McGrath, Marian Quartly, Creating a Nation, Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1994.

Hardy, Frank, The Unlucky Australians, London, Pan Books, 1968.

Harris, Stewart, Political Football - The Springbok Tour of Australia 1971, Melbourne: Gold Star, 1972.

Hay, David, The Delivery of Services Financed by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, AGPS, Canberra, 1976.

Hiatt, L.R., Arguments About Aborigines:Australia and the evolution of social anthropology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Horner, Jack, "Steadfast Pioneers", Identity, Vol.1No.5, July, 1972.

Howard, Michael, "Aboriginal political change in an urban setting: the N.A.C.C. election in Perth", Berndt, RM, (Ed.) Aborigines and Change: Australia in the '70s, Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1977.

Kidd, Rosalind, The Way We Civilise, St. Lucia, Univeristy of Queensland Press, 1997.

Kohn, Marek, The Race Gallery: The Return of Racial Science, Vintage: London, 1996.

Levi, Primo, If This Is a Man: The Truce, Vintage: London, 1996.

Lippmann, Lorna, "The Aborigines", in Allan Patience & Brian Head (Eds), From Whitlam to Fraser:Reform and Reaction in Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1979.

Nathan, Pam, Home Away From Home: A study of the Aboriginal Health Service in Fitzroy, Melbourne: PIT Press, 1980.

Mabo and Orr v Queensland (1992) High Court of Australia, CLR.

Manne, Robert. (Ed.) The Australian Century: Political Struggle in the Building of a Nation, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1999.

Markus, Andrew, Blood From a Stone, Clayton: Monash Publications in History, 1986.

Markus, Andrew "After the Outward Appearance: Scientists, administrators and politicians", all that dirt: An Australian 1938 Monograph, ed. Bill Gammage and Andrew Markus, Canberra: History Project Incorporated, 1982.

Morris, Barry Domesticating Resistance: the Dhan-Gadi Aborigines and the Australian State, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1989.

Mullard, Chris, Aborigines in Australia Today, Canberra, National Aboriginal Forum, 1974.

O'Donnell, P. and Simons, L. (eds) Australians Against Racism: Testimonies from the anti-apartheid movement in Australia, Annandale: Pluto Press, 1995.

Olbrei, Erik, (ed.) Black Australians: Prospects for Change, Townsville, Students Union James Cook University, 1982.

Pollard, David, Give and Take: The Losing Partnership inAboriginal Poverty, Marrickville, Hale & Ironmonger, 1988.

Prentis, Malcolm D., A Study in Black and White: The Aborigines in Australian History, Methuen Australia, 1975.

Public Service Commission, Reports on allegations about personnel management in the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, AGPS, Canberra, 1989.

Read, Peter, Charles Perkins: A Biography, Ringwood, Penguin, 2001.

Rintoul, Stuart The Wailing: A National Black Oral History, Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1993.

Roberts, David. "Self-Determination and the Struggle for Aboriginal Equality", in C. Bourke, E.Bourke, B.Edwards, Aboriginal Australia, UQP, 1994.

Robinson, Fergus and Barry York, The Black Resistance, Melbourne :Widescope, 1977.

Rose, Michael For the Record: 160 Years of Aboriginal Print Journalism, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996.

Rowley, C.D., The Destruction of Aboriginal Society, Canberra: ANU Press, 1970.

Rowse, Tim, Obliged to be Difficult: Nugget Coombs Legacy in Indigenous Affairs, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Rowse, Tim, After Mabo: Interpreting indigenous traditions, Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1993.

Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists, Report of the National Trachoma & Eye Health Program, Sydney: RACA, 1980.

Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, National Report, Volume 4, 33.1.120, 1991.

Schleunes, Karl A. The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi policy toward German Jews 1933 -1939, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1970.

Scott, Kim, Benang: From the Heart, Freemantle: Freemantle Arts Centre Press, 1999.

Shoemaker, Adam Black Words White Page: Aboriginal Literature 1929 - 1988, St.Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1989.

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1999. * * *Very Highly Recommended

Sullivan, Patrick (Ed.), Shooting the Banker: Essays on ATSIC and Self-Determination, North Australia Research Unit, ANU, Darwin, 1996.

Sykes, Roberta, Black Majority: An analysis of 21 years of Black Australian experience as emancipated Australian citizens, Hawthorn, Hudson Publishing, 1989.

Sykes, Roberta, Snake Dancing: autobiography of a black woman, St.Leonards, Allen & Unwin, 1998.

Tatz, Colin, Race Politics in Australia:Aborigines, Politics and Law, Armidale, University of New England Publishing Unit, 1979.

Tatz, Colin, (ed), Black Viewpoints, Brookvale, Australia and NZ Book Co., 1975.

Tonkin, Daryl & Carolyn Landon, Jackson's Track: Memoir of a Dreamtime Place, Melbourne: Viking, 1999. * * *Very Highly Recommended


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An African American History Reader Bibliography

Primary Source

Carson, E. et al, The Eyes on the Prize, Civil Rights Reader: Documents, speeches, and firsthand accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle 1954 - 1990, New York: Viking Penguin, 1991.

Commager, H.S., (ed) The Struggle for Racial Equality: A Documentary Record, Gloucester, Mass.: Harper, 1972.

DeLoach, Carth "Deke", Hoover's FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted Lieutenant, Washington: Regnery Publishing, 1995.

Du Bois, W.E.B., The Souls of Black Folk: essays and sketches, New York: 1903.

Fanon, Frantz, The Wretched of the Earth, London: Penguin, 1963.

June Memo, FBI Assistant Director Courtney Evans to FBI Director Alan Belmont, October 10 1963.

June Memo, FBI Assistant Director Charles Brennan to FBI Assistant Director William Sullivan, December 15, 1964.

Memo, FBI Assistant Director Courtney Evans to Assistant Director Alan Belmont, July 16 1963.

Theoharis, Athan, (Ed.), From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1991.

Secondary Source

Bloom, Jack M., 'The Defeat of White Power and the Emergence of the 'New Negro' in the South', from Class, Race and the Civil Rights Movement, Indiana: Bloominton, 1987.

Genovese, Eugene D., Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, New York: 1976.

Gentry, Curt, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.

Horton J.O., & Horton, L.E. (eds), A History of the African American People, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997.

Jeffreys, Diarmuid, The Bureau:Inside the Modern FBI, Boston:Houghton Mifflin, 1995

Kornweibel, Theodore, Seeing Red: Federal Campaigns Against Black Militancy 1919 -1925, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1998.

O'Reilly, Kenneth, "Racial Matters": The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960 - 1972, New York: The Free Press, 1989.

Meir, A., Rudwick, E., Broderick, F.L., (eds) Black Protest Thought in the Twentieth Century, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merril, 1976.

Pearson, Hugh, The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Powers, Richard Gid, Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover, New York: The Free Press, 1987.

Riches, William T. Martin, The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Smallwood, Arwin D., The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times, Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Sorrentino, Dr. Frank M., Ideological Warfare: The FBI's Path Toward Power, New York: National University Publications, 1985.

Stewart, Jeffrey C., 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History, New York: Doubleday, 1996.

Summers, Anthony, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J.Edgar Hoover, New York: Putman, 1993.

Theoharis, Athan, J. Edgar Hoover, Sex and Crime: An Historical Antidote, Chicago: 1995.

Theoharis, Athan, and Cox, John Stuart, The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.

White, John, Black Leadership in America: from Booker T. Washington to Jesse Jackson, New York: Longman, 1985.

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