Full Description
In See How We Roll Melinda Hinkson follows the experiences of Nungarrayi, a Warlpiri woman from the Central Australian desert, as she struggles to establish a new life for herself in the city of Adelaide. Banished from her hometown, Nungarrayi energetically navigates promises of transformation as well as sedimented racialized expectations on the urban streets. Drawing on a decades-long friendship, Hinkson explores these circumstances through Nungarrayi's relationships: those between her country and kin that sustain and confound life beyond the desert, those that regulate her marginalized citizenship, and the new friendships called out by displacement and metropolitan life. An intimate ethnography, See How We Roll provides great insight into the enduring violence of the settler colonial state while illuminating the efforts of Indigenous people to create lives of dignity and shared purpose in the face of turbulence, grief, and tightening governmental controls.
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: In and Out of Place 1
1. Journeying With 23
2. Staking New Ground 43
3. Between Here and There 67
4. Ties That Bind 93
5. Forces of Containment 117
6. See How We Roll 141
7. Free to the World 157
Afterword 179
Notes 183
Bibliography 205
Index 221
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