TY - BOOK AU - Briscoe, Gordon AB - Briscoe’s grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve ‘the half-caste problem’. It gives life to those generations of Aboriginal people assumed to have no history and whose past labels them only as shadowy figures. Briscoe’s enthralling narrative combines his, and his contemporaries, institutional and family life with a high-level career at the heart of the Aboriginal political movement at its most dynamic time. It also documents the road he travelled as a seventeen year old fireman on the South Australia Railways to becoming the first Aboriginal person to achieve a PhD in history. DO - 10.26530/OAPEN_459478 ID - OAPEN ID: 459478 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 501814222 KW - politics and government KW - australia KW - aboriginal australians KW - history KW - biography KW - Alice Springs KW - Bernard Smith (organ builder) KW - Half-caste KW - Indigenous Australians L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/4ddcb782-867d-4c06-b838-ccbdf21afd2e/459478.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33644 PB - ANU Press PP - Canberra PY - 2010 SN - 9781921666216 TI - Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Centrury Aboriginal Familynull ER -