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What are Secondary Sources?  Journal articles & chapters etc... written about a work of literature and offering a critical view of that work are called literary criticism.

What are Primary Sources?  Original works of literature and uninterpreted information about an event or period of time.

Beware Wikipedia! It can't be cited in academic essays (avoid sites where authors aren't accountable for contributions). 

Evaluate! Evaluate! Evaluate!
Don't believe everything you read.

Avoid Plaigiarism
That's using an author's work or ideas without referencing it (yes, even if it's not directly quoted & you've changed the words)

'New Titles Received' Lists

Aboriginal Australians : a history since 1788 - Richard Broome

ISBN: 1742370519

Tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians: those who lost most in the early colonial struggle for power. Surveying 2 centuries of Aboriginal-European encounters, he shows how white settlers steadily supplanted the original inhabitants, from the shining coasts to inland deserts, by sheer force of numbers, disease, technology, & violence... tracing the continuing Aboriginal struggle to move from the margins of a settler society to a more central place

Aboriginal family and the state : the conditions of history - Sally Babidge

ISBN: 0754679357

Examines the contemporary relations and history of Indigenous families in Australia, specifically referencing issues of government control and recent official recognition of Aboriginal 'traditional owners'. Drawing on detailed empirical research, it develops a discussion of the anthropological issues of kinship and relatedness within colonial and 'postcolonial' contexts.

Empowering and disempowering Indigenes : staging Australian Aboriginal experience - Khairul Chowdhury

ISBN: 3838349539

This study considers a large number of playtexts written by the Indigenous playwrights from 1970s to the present, it explores playtexts written by non-Indigenous playwrights as well. Here, the chief concern is to explore the discursive features of the texts, the items both linguistic and dramatic that tend to place or exclude Aboriginal people from discourses.

Settler sovereignty : jurisdiction and indigenous people in America and Australia, 1788-1836 - Lisa Ford

ISBN: 0674035658

Traces the emergence of modern settler sovereignty in everyday contests between settlers and indigenous people in early national Georgia and the colony of New South Wales. In both places before 1820, most settlers and indigenous people understood their conflicts as war, resolved disputes with diplomacy, and relied on shared notions like reciprocity and retaliation to address frontier theft and violence.

Sydney's Aboriginal past : investigating the archaeological and historical records - Val Attenbrow

ISBN: 1742231160

Draws on the latest historical, archaeological, geological, environmental and linguistic research, as well as oral evidence of present-day Aboriginal people, to reveal the diversity of Aboriginal life in the Sydney region before, during and for the first thirty years of British settlement

 

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