CITIZENSHIP AND INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS: CHANGING CONCEPTIONS AND POSSIBILITIES.(Review)

CITIZENSHIP AND INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS: CHANGING CONCEPTIONS AND POSSIBILITIES Nicolas Peterson and Will Sanders (eds) Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1998, xiii, 222 pp., $29.95 (paperback).

In the 1990s, issues of race, immigration and citizenship are central to understanding Australian society. The contributors to Citizenship and Indigenous Australians engage in debates about the concept of citizenship in contemporary Australia and what it means for both indigenous and nonindigenous Australians with contributions from history, anthropology and law.

The various chapters of this book raise many interesting and provocative questions. For example, Chapter 6, by Bain Attwood and …