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Do the people of Australia interact with positive
Government theorizing and reflect this interaction
in positive typifications and positive attitudes
to Aborigines? or do people in general continue
to interact with sedimented meanings from the pre-
1967 period, and in general nihilate Aborigines
by reflecting negative typifications? Have urban
Aboriginal people continued to interact with these
sedimented negative typifications to reproduce
them in a negative self image?
How do Aborigines theorize about their present
and future location in the world of the dominant
group ?
In particular, how are these questions answered
in relation to a new generation which has not been
socialized in the pre-1967 era, namely the students
now in schools?
These questions will be addressed in Area II with special reference
to educational contexts (Chapters XIX-XXII).
Prior to this, the question of Aboriginal theorizing about
Aboriginal 'worlds’ will now be pursued through an analysis of
the ’worlds’ of Aboriginal people in the contexts selected: Strelley
(Chapters XII-XVII), Port Augusta and Adelaide (Chapter XVIII):