Race to The Frontier

A collection of lively letters which provide insights into, and details of, race relations, social history, and the dawn of anthropological and biological interest in central Australia. A century later they reveal to us a fascinating view of Australia's p

"The ways in which we can redress the past are many and varied," writes Jean Barman, "and it is up to each of us to act as best we can." The seventeen essays collected here, originally published between 1996 and 2013, make a valuable contribution toward this laudable goal. With a wide range of source material, from archival and documentary sources to oral histories, Barman pieces together stories of individuals and groups disadvantaged in white settler society because of their gender, race and/or social class.