in force. In Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and theHidden Injuries of Race, anthropologist Gillian Cowlishaw usesthis vivid incident as a means of launching a larger discussionabout race, identity, and racialized violence. Brings indigenous Australians into the contemporary global racediscourse in a lively, highly readable ethnography.Explores the local and national meanings of a race riot inAustralia and the entrenched racial binary evident in everydayrelationships.Raises questions about history, memory, citizenship, respect,and abjection as means of considering the politics, social science,and psychology of race rivalry and indigenous marginality.Written by a prominent scholar with clarity, verve, andaccessibility both for beginners and those well-versed incontemporary debates.

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