Book review of "The Politics of Identity: who counts as Aboriginal today?" by B. Carlson. Canberra, ACT, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-922059-96-3

[Extract] Carlson’s book, based on a manuscript which won the 2013 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies’ Stanner Award, explores what it means to be Aboriginal today. Weaving together personal, political and sociological inquiries, she focuses especially on the formal Confirmation of Aboriginality process and on divergent conceptions of Aboriginality among Aboriginal people themselves. Fundamentally, it is a critique of the gatekeeper role some Aboriginal organisations and individuals have arrogated to themselves.

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