WEST AUSTRALIANA Aboriginal –
This new archival research-based case study by Roland See looks primarily at segregation and ‘assimilation’ in interaction with the settler-Australian community in the Western Australian wheatbelt town of York. The period under review spans from 1923 to 1974 which corresponds with the official existence of the ‘York Native Reserve’-a space of total segregation.
Coinciding with a growing Aboriginal population in York, the 1940s witnessed the peak of public demands for Aboriginal segregation and its implementation through State Government agencies.
The 1950s witnessed the struggle of those same agencies in trying to ‘assimilate’ Aboriginal people into ‘mainstream’ society against a swell of opposition from vocal parts of the settler-Australian community in York.
pp. 382 (name scribbled out on prelim, otherwise Fine) #241026