ABSTRACT
Historically, non-Indigenous approaches to defining and understanding Indigeneity have focused on the need to surveil and control the socialization, mobility and biological reproduction of those with some descent from pre-colonial people of Australia. Although this chapter focuses on racial identities and Indigenous identities more specifically, it must be noted that 'we do not experience the world only as Indigenous or non-Indigenous' but also through many other facets of our identity which we adopt and/or are ascribed to us by others. Although many Indigenous people rightly desire the privileges that, until recently, have been synonymous with Whiteness, such desire is associated with being less Indigenous. The intense questioning of authenticity is due to the profound disruption that white-skinned Indigenes represent for the Black–White racial dichotomy, so fervently embraced in Australia. Internationally, it has been recognized that Indigeneity cannot be reduced to 'oppositional relations between native peoples and their others'.
