Dimensions
136 x 208 x 28mm
Between 1936 and 1954 the Western Australian Government conducted Courts of Native Affairs that heard murder and manslaughter cases where both the defendant and victim were Aboriginal. Cases which for every other citizen carried the status of Supreme Court trials were reduced to summary hearings conducted by amateurs. In a major contribution to the nation's indigenous affairs history, Black Glass explores these little-known courts, along with the silence in which they were buried and the strategic silences exercised by their Aboriginal subjects.
The book will be of particular interest to legal studies students and those interested in the current Aboriginal history debate.
