Duelling paradigms: Australian Aborigines, marn-grook and football histories
@article{Hallinan2012DuellingPA, title={Duelling paradigms: Australian Aborigines, marn-grook and football histories}, author={Christopher Hallinan and Barry Judd}, journal={Sport in Society}, year={2012}, volume={15}, pages={975 - 986} }
The Australian Football League (AFL) boasts a significant over-representation of players from Indigenous Australian backgrounds. On this basis the AFL has come to represent itself as a leading national authority on anti-racism in sports and as a key supporter of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. In contracting an official history of Australian football, the AFL's volume reveals the limits of a historical analysis that presents itself as neutral and objective, but…
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