Because a White Man'll Never Do it

Based on personal experience, research, interviews primarily in NSW; extensive quotes of black spokesmen; each chapter prefaced by authors poetry; Chap.1; Effects of colonisation - loss of personal identity and tie to land, disease, population decrease; Chap.2; Citizenship rights, segregation, police discrimination, reserves and paternalism, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Acts, Aboriginal Embassy; Chap.3; Black activism, National Tribal Council, nature of Australian racism; Chap.4; ALP policies (1971 Launceston Conference), FCAATSI and Yirrkala land claims and comparison with U.S., Land Rights Bill; Chap.5; Bryant as DAA Minister, Woodward Commission, NACC, need for Aboriginal consultation, self determination, self help; Chap.6; Redfern housing project, black and white racism; Chap.7; Definition and growth of Black Power, use of violence; Chap.8; Growth of Aboriginal awareness of racism outside Australia; Chap.9; Black National Theatre, need for black theatre; Chap.10; Birth control programmes and genocide; Chap.11; Aboriginal conservatism, Toms and the buffer class, Senator Bonner; Chap.12; Problems and nature of leadership in black community, FCAATSI, Koori politics; Chap.13; Effect of detribalisation and life on reserves (loss of self determination, purpose, identity), discrimination as a crutch, need for black community organisers and black acceptance of responsibility; Chap.14; White interference in black projects Redfern housing project; Chap.15; Growth of black consciousness, rejection of assimilation, self determination and a separate black state, land claims and compensation, black reassertion of human values, representation in Parliament; Epilogue; Aboriginal affairs under Labor - NAAC, Woodward Commission, Yirrkala land case, land rights and mineral exploration, ALP band - aid policies.