Prof Bronwyn Carlson is an Indigenous studies lecturer at the University of Wollongong, and the author of The Politics of Identity: Who Counts as Aboriginal Today. It was the subject of her PhD, which won the Stanner Award from AIATSIS.
Bronwyn joined Amy McQuire to talk about the history of Aboriginal identity, how Aboriginal people were characterized by anthropologists studying a ‘dying race’ and then later by those pushing our people towards ‘assimilation’, and how that feeds into current day ‘controversies’ around Aboriginal identity. Bronwyn also talks about her history, her belonging and what lead her into academia.