Aileen Moreton-Robinson is professor of Indigenous studies at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and is director of the National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network. She is author of Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism and editor of several books, including Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: White Possession and Indigenous Sovereignty Matters
Part I. Owning Property
1. I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a
Postcolonizing Society
2. The House That Jack Built: Britishness and White Possession
3. Bodies That Matter on the Beach
4. Writing Off Treaties: Possession in the U.S. Critical Whiteness
Literature
Part II. Becoming Propertyless
5. Nullifying Native Title: A Possessive Investment in Whiteness
6. The High Court and the Yorta Yorta Decision
7. Leesa’s Story: White Possession in the Workplace
8. The Legacy of Cook’s Choice
Part III. Being Property
9. Toward a New Research Agenda: Foucault, Whiteness, and Sovereignty
10. Writing Off Sovereignty: The Discourse of Security and Patriarchal
White Sovereignty
11. Imagining the Good Indigenous Citizen: Race War and the Pathology of
White Sovereignty
12. Virtuous Racial States: White Sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Afterword
Notes
Publication History
Index
