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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.

Part guidebook and part social history, this volume describes 50 places of significance to Sydney's indigenous people. They include the locations of rock art, early contact and conflict, "civilizing experiments," civil rights actions and community pride events, cultural centers, galleries, museums, and theaters. Color photographs are prominently featured. Hinkson is an anthropologist. Harris is a photographer with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Distributed by ISBS Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR