Being Black

This volume brings together results of research by anthropologists, linguists and historians on the social life of people who used to be labelled 'part-Aborigines' or 'urban Aborigines'.

Issues discussed include bases of identity, ties of family, structure of community, ways of speaking, beliefs and feelings about country, and attitudes to the past.

Production Details

• Paperback
• 240mm x 170mm x 20mm
• 288pp
• Released January 1991
• ISBN 9780855751852

About The Cover

Front cover: Painting by Willie Gudubi, Alawa. Southwest Arnhemland, NT, born c. 1917.

Alawa sacred sites at Llangabun. 1987

Synthetic ploymer paint on canvas, 840mm, 320mm.

Collection Australian- National Gallery, Canberra