Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. demonstrate an understanding and knowledge of relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australian history;
2. demonstrate an understanding and knowledge of the major themes and issues in Australian race relations history;
3. demonstrate an awareness of the forces shaping our perception of the Australian past with regard to relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, and how this history is used in the present, by recognising and critically evaluating the various arguments;

Topics covered are, broadly, encounters between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australian history, including between:
- Macassans and Aboriginal people in northern Australia;
- British convicts and Aboriginal people in NSW and Qld;
- British pastoralists and Aboriginal people;
- Chinese and Aboriginal people;
- Afghans and Aboriginal people
- Japanese and Aboriginal people;
- missionaries (German, Anglo-Australian) and Aboriginal people;
- state/federal governments and Aboriginal people;
- labour movement and Aboriginal people;
- feminist movement and Aboriginal people.
This course draws upon postcolonial theoretical constructs about cross-cultural colonialist relationships, gender and class, and the representations of such relationships in popular culture; and utilizes a wide range of source material, including artwork and performance, as well as written sources.
Wherever possible, guest lecturers from a variety of backgrounds - both Indigenous and non-Indigenous - will provide students with an insight into the range and diversity of experiences and histories embedded in the colonial encounter.

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20 units of HIST or ABOR courses at 1000 level.

Internal Mode

Lecture
Tutorial

Lecture: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Tutorial: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term