help re: perspective (1 Viewer)

[dombro]

for my history major work i'm looking at doing something along the lines of "how the issue of the stolen generation has been used to further both the three cheers and black armband views of australian history"

i've got a fair bit of stuf but a large number of it is published more by politicians instead of historians...can that still be used? does it still remain historiographical...?

anywho any help would be muchly 'ppreciated...cheers...

 

[The Brucemaster]

for my history major work i'm looking at doing something along the lines of "how the issue of the stolen generation has been used to further both the three cheers and black armband views of australian history"

i've got a fair bit of stuf but a large number of it is published more by politicians instead of historians...can that still be used? does it still remain historiographical...?

anywho any help would be muchly 'ppreciated...cheers...

I've already pretty much said what I'm gonna say in the other thread on the MRP about use of sources but basically if your focus is on historiographical analysis then it's better to use a variety of sources than just using historians. Especially when you consider that Aboriginal history is such a politically charged debate it would be negligent for you not to include political sources.
Considering that the question you have at this stage is a decidedly political one as well you'll need a balance between political and historical sources.