Outback Ghettos: Aborigines, Institutionalisation and Survival

by Peggy Brock

Book Overview

Up until the 1970s, a large proportion of Aboriginal people in Australia had some experience in institutions as part of government assimilation and protection policies. By focusing on three communities in South Australia, this book attempts to understand the consequences of this institutionalization for Aborigines and Australian society in general. Peggy Brock uses the word ghetto to evoke the nature of the missions in which many Aboriginal people...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521447089
• ISBN13: 9780521447089
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"