Description: Few Australians have heard of William Cooper, an important Aboriginal leader in Australia's history. Thinking Black tells the story of Cooper and the Australian Aborigines League, and their campaign for Aboriginal people's rights.
Brief description: Bain Attwood has published extensively in the history of colonialism. His sole authored books include The Making of the Aborigines (1989), Rights for Aborigines (2003), Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History (2005), Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History (2009), Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People (2020), and William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story (2021). Andrew Markus is Emeritus Professor in Monash University's School of International, Historical and Philosophical Studies. Since 2004 he has been a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. His research specialisation is in the field of racial and ethnic relations, ethnic communities, and immigration policy. He is the author or co-author of more than one hundred academic articles, book chapters, reference works, and reports, and of nineteen books.
Review Quotes: "Attwood and Markus have presented us with a rich body of material to ponder, and Aboriginal Studies Press have produced a handsome book, appropriately illustrated, to complement their splendid collection of documents." --Richard Broome, "History Australia"