期刊名称：Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
印刷版ISSN：1832-3898
电子版ISSN：1838-8310
出版年度：2012
卷号：8
期号：2
出版社：Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRAWSA)
摘要：Chris Healy's book Forgetting Aborigines, contrary to its ominous title, is a text that seeks to examine contemporary dynamics between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in relation to public 'Aboriginality' and rethink some convenient blind spots in the functioning of historical memory. In doing so, Healy locates and illustrates the flawed processes of memory and history-making that have been produced in response to actual violence and dispossession of the inhabitants of Australia. Healy draws upon a series of cultural examples from scholarly theory, television, art, heritage, museums and tourism to demonstrate how contemporary indigenous and non-indigenous people try to negotiate the spectre of a shared past
