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Black Glass
by Kate Auty
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- About the Book
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Between 1936 and 1954 the Western Australian government operated Courts of Native Affairs that heard murder and manslaughter cases where defendant and victim were Aboriginal. These cases, which for evey other citizen had the status of Supreme Court trials, were reduced to summary hearings conducted largely by amateurs. Black Glass explores these little-known courts, along with the silence in which they were buried and the strategic silences excercised by their Aboriginal subjects.
… Aboriginal people remained resistantly silent. Alternatively they volunteered multiple and arguably deliberately obfuscating versions of events … establishing false tracks and alternative scenarios of some complexity … Some of these narratives were advanced, dropped, adopted again and repackaged. This could happen a number of times. Every once in a while a person was recorded remaining simply and unremittingly stoic and silent … - Categories
- Current Affairs, Culture & Social History, Indigenous Writing
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- ISBN11
- 1 92073 104 0
- ISBN13
- 9 781920 731045
- HB/PB
- Paperback
- Format
- B+ Format (205 x 138mm)
- Pages
- 368
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