- Trinh T Minh-Ha, Woman, Native, Other, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989, 120
- Jackie Huggins, ‘Wedmedi—If Only You Knew’ in Jackie Huggins, Sister Girl, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1998, 25 at 30
- Stuart Hall, ‘Cultural Identity and Diaspora’ in Jonathon Rutherford (ed) Identity, Community, Culture, Difference, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1990, 222, at 222
- Jacques Derrida, “Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority’, Trans. Mary Quantaince, in Drucilla Cornell, Michel Rosenfeld, David Gray Carlson (eds), Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice, New York: Routledge, 1992, 3, at 19
- Ibid, 22
- Terry Threadgold, ‘Black man, White Woman, Irresistible Impulse: Media, Law and Literature making the Black Murderer’ in Pheng Cheah, David Fraser, Judith Grbich (eds), Thinking Through the Body of the Law, New York: New York University Press, 1996, 163, at 164
- Sangeetha Chandra-Shekeran, ‘Challenging the Fiction of the Nation in the ‘Reconciliation’ Texts of Mabo and Bringing Them Home’, (1998) 11 Australian Feminist Law Journal 11
- Quoted from the transcript of the (my) Contested Committal held in Melbourne in October 1997
- Threadgold, ‘Black Man, White Woman’ above n6, 15
- Derrrida, ‘Force of Law’, above n4, 13
- Threadgold, ‘Black Man, White Woman’, above n6, 167
- Suvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese ‘Wogface, Anglo-Drag, Contested Aboriginalities… Making and Unmaking Identities in Australia’, (1998) 4 Social Identities 68
- Minh-Ha, Woman, Native, Other, above n1, 24
- Roberta Sykes, ‘Identities—Who Am I?’, (1991) 17 Hecate 1991
- Joseph Pugliese, ‘Cartographies of Violence: Heterotopias and the Barbarism of Western Law’, (1996) 7 The Australian Feminist Law Journal 23
- Ibid
- Pugliese, ‘Cartographies of Violence’, above n15, 23
- Huggins, ‘Wedmedi’, above n2, 26
- Larissa Behrendt, ‘Aboriginal Women and the White Lies of the Feminist Movement: Implications for Aboriginal Women in Rights Discourse’, (1993) 1 The Australian Feminist Law Journal 31
- Roberta Sykes, Snake Dancing, St Leonards: Allen and Unwin, 1998.
- Ibid, 173
- Ibid, 227
- Huggins, ‘Wedmedi’, above n2, 26
- Ibid, 34
- Jackie Huggins et. al. ‘Letter to the Editors’, (1991) 14 Women's Studies International Forum 506
- Ibid
- Ibid, 506
- Jan Larbalestier ‘The Politics of Representation: Australian Aboriginal Women and Feminism’, (1990) 6 Anthropological Forum 154
- Huggins et. al., ‘Letter to the Editor’, above n25, 507
- Dianne Bell and Topsy Napurula Nelson, ‘Speaking About Rape is Everyone's Business’, (1989) 12 Women's Studies International Forum 403–416
- Larbalestier, ‘The Politics of Representation’, above n28, 147
- Ibid, 150
- Sykes, Snake Dancing, above n20
- Ibid, 207
- Huggins, ‘Wedmedi’, above n2, 28
- Evelyn Hammonds, ‘Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality’ in Elizabeth Weed & Naomi Schor (eds), Feminism Meets Queer Theory, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1997, 131, at 137
- Melanie Heenan ‘Sex Crimes and the Criminal Justice System’, (1997) 9 The Australian Feminist Law Journal 138
- Ibid
- Judith Butler, ‘Passing, Queering: Nella Larsen's Psychoanalytic Challenge’ in Judith Butler, Bodies That Matta, New York: Routledge, 1993, 167 at 168
- See Suvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese, ‘Racial Suicide: the relicensing of racism in Australia’, (1997) 39 Race and Class
- Cheryl Harris, ‘Whiteness As Property’, (1993) 106 Harvard Law Review. Harris is writing in the context of the USA however I believe that her work is also helpful in thinking through colonialism and whiteness in Australia
- Ibid, 1715
- Jackie Huggins, ‘Kooramindanjie: Place and the Postcolonial’ in Jackie Huggins, Sister Girl, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1998, 99 at 104
- Ibid, 105
- Yvonne Margarula, the senior traditional owner of Jabiru was arrested for trespass on her own land. See Terry Ryder, ‘Storm in the Mine's Eye’ The Age, 09/06/98, 11. Also see Jacqui Katona, ‘The Mirrar Owners of their own Land’, The Broadsheet: Jabiluka Country at Stake, Victoria: Australian Conservation Foundation, 1998
- Harris, above n41, 1721
- Marina Paxman, ‘Aborigines and the Criminal Justice System: Women and Children First’, (1993) 18 Alternative Law Journal 154
- Harris, above n41, 1713
- Henry A. Giroux ‘Racial Politics and the Pedagogy of Whiteness’ in Mike Hill (ed). Whiteness: A Critical Reader, New York: New York University Press, 1997, 294, at 311
- Roberta Sykes, Snake Cradle, St Leonards: Allen and Unwin, 1997 & Sykes, Snake Dancing, above n20. These are parts 1 and 2 of Snake Dreaming: Autobiography of a Black Woman.
- R Sykes, Snake Cradle, above n50, 326
- Ibid, 217–218
- Ibid, 217
- Ross Chambers, ‘The Unexamined’ in Mike Hill (ed). Whiteness: A Critical Reader, New York: New York University Press, 1997, 190, at 197
- Ibid, 192
- Kate Davy, ‘Outing Whiteness: A Feminist/Lesbian Project’ in M Hill (ed), Whiteness: A Critical Reader, New York: New York University Press, 1997, 204, at 216
- Ibid, 215
- Kate Davy, Outing Whiteness’, above n56, 217
- Ibid
- Chambers, ‘The Unexamined’, above n54, 191
- Roberta Sykes, Black Majority, Hawthorn: Hudson Publishing, 1989, 16
- Sykes, Snake Dancing, above n20, 25
- Behrendt, ‘Aboriginal Women and the White Lies’, above n19, 30
- As Marina Paxman says “Aboriginal women have survived 200 years of violent colonial dispossession, alienation, poverty, rape, assault and murder”, in ‘Aborigines and the Criminal Justice’, above n47, 154. Also see Michael E Staub, ‘The Whitest I: On Reading the Hill-Thomas Transcripts’ in Mike Hill (ed), Whiteness: A Critical Reader, New York: New York University Press, 1997, 47–62
- Behrendt, ‘Aboriginal Women and the White Lies’, above n19, 30
- Nina Puren, ‘Hymeneal Acts: Interrogating the Hegemony of Rape and Romance’, (1995) 5 The Australian Feminist Law Journal 24
- Angela Davis, ‘Rape, Racism and the Capitalist Setting’ in Joy James (ed) The Angela Y. Davis Reader, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1998, 129, at 135
- Paxman, ‘Aborigines and the Criminal Justice’, above n47, 154
- Quoted in Pugliese, ‘Cartographies of Violence’, above n15, 29
- Henry Reynolds, Why Weren't We Told, Australia: Penguin, 1999, 132
- Huggins, ‘Wedmedi’, above n2, 29
- Ibid
- Ibid
- Huggins, ‘Wedmedi’, above n2, 29
- Amira Inglis in Pugliese, above n15, 29.
- Marcia Langton, Well I Heard it on the Radio and I Saw It on the Television, North Sydney: Australian Film Commission, 1993, 24
- Sykes, Snake Cradle, above n50, 317
- Ibid
- Pugliese, ‘Cartographies of Violence’, above n15, 30
- Sykes, ‘Identities’, above n14, 33
- See Homi K Bhabha ‘A Good Judge of Character: Men, Metaphors, and the Common Culture’ in Toni Morrison (ed) Raceing Justice, En-gendering Power: essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas and the Construction of Social Reality, London: Chatto and Windus, 1993, 110
- Zombie as defined in The Concise Oxford Dictionary, 3rd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. “In the west Indies and southern states of America, a soulless corpse said to have been revived by witchcraft; formerly, the name of a snake-deity in voodoo cults of or deriving from West Africa and Haiti, A dull, apathetic or slow-witted person”. Zombie as defined in the Macquarie Dictionary Second Revision, Australia, The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd, Macquarie University, 1987, 1986. “The python god among certain West Africans; The snake god worshipped in the voodoo ceremonies in the West Indies and certain parts of the Southern US; A supernatural force that brings a corpse to physical life; A person thought to resemble the walking dead; A person having no individual judgement, intelligence“.
- Toni Morrison, ‘Introduction: Friday on the Pontomac’ in Toni Morrison (ed) Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power, London: Chatto and Windus, 1993, i, at xviii
- Butler, ‘Passing, Queering’, above n39, 184
- Phillip Morrissey, ‘Horrific and Heroic’, (1998) September Australian Book Review 11
- Toni Morrison, Race-ing Justice, above n83, x
- Morrisey, ‘Horrific and Heroic’, above n85, 12
- Behrendt, ‘Aboriginal Women and the White Lies’, above n19, 30
- Sykes, Snake Cradle, above n50, 320
- Roberta Sykes, ‘Black Women in Australia’ in Jan Mercer, The Other Half: Women in Australian Society, Ringwood: Penguin Books, 1975, 313, at 315
- Sykes, Snake Cradle, above n50, 325
- Ibid, 237–8
- Ibid, 325
- Behrendt, ‘Aboriginal Women and the White Lies’, above n19, 30
- Ibid, 30 & 35. I am not saying that non-Aboriginal women are not raped by police but that the incidence of rape of Aboriginal women is much higher and has a long history.
- Sykes, Snake Dancing, above n20, 172
- Ibid, 178
- Behrendt, ‘Aboriginal Women and the White Lies’, above n19, 31 & 35
- Sykes, ‘Black Women’ above n90, 321
- Angela Davis, ‘JoAnne Little: The Dialectics of Rape’ in Joy James (ed) The Angela Y. Davis Reader, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1998, 149, at 155
- Harris, ‘Whiteness as Property’, above no41, 1713
- Writing in the US bell hooks speaks of whiteness as terror in bell hooks, ‘Representations of Whiteness in the Black Imagination’ in Killing Rage Ending Racism, London: Penguin Books, 1996, 31 at 37
- Held at La Trobe University Bundoora, Victoria on October 16, 1998
- Aida Hurtado and Abigail J Stewart, ‘Through the Looking Glass: Implications of Studying Whiteness for Feminist Method’ in Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Linda C Powell, L Mun Wong (eds) Off White, New York: Routledge, 1997, 297, at 303
- Trinh Minh-ha, Woman Native Other, above n1, 48
- Elizabeth Ellsworth, ‘Double Binds of Whiteness’ in Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Linda C Powell, L Mun Wong (eds), OffWhite, New York: Routledge, 1997, 259, at 268
- Regarding whiteness as terror see bell hooks, ‘Representations of Whiteness in the Black Imagination’ and ‘Overcoming White Supremacy’ and in Killing Rage: ending racism, USA: Penguin, 1995, 31 and 184
- Gary Foley, ‘The Power of Whiteness’ in (1998) 7 Farago 18.
- See Michel Foucault, ‘Two Lectures’ in Michel Foucault, Colin Gordon (ed), Power Knowledge, USA, Pantheon Books, 1980, 78–108
- hooks, ‘Overcoming White Supremacy’ above n107, 195
- Taken from the title of Drucilla Cornell, Michel Rosenfeld, David Gray Carlson (eds), Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice, New York: Routledge, 1992
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