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Indigenous Australian Identity in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts

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This chapter presents a survey of writings about Australian Indigenous identity formation, from the beginnings of European intrusion, through racialized identities in the colonial-settler era, and up to the era of self-determination and rights and recognition, wherein Indigenous peoples assert their own identities. The chapter includes brief discussion on identities within the nation-state, Aboriginality and ethnicity, and discourses and representations of identity.

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Davis, M. (2019). Indigenous Australian Identity in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts. In: Ratuva, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0242-8_146-1

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