Analysis Of Noel Pearson: Breaking The Cycle Of Indigenous Disadvantage

Noel Pearson on ‘Breaking the Cycle of Indigenous Disadvantage’

Noel Pearson is an Aboriginal Australian lawyer and activist who focuses majorly on land and academic rights (Peterson 2015:85). He is the founder of CYIPL; an organization, that promotes the social and economic developments of Cape York, Australia. Pearson became prominent as an advocate for the rights of Indigenous peoples especially land rights. Towards the end of the 1990s and beyond, Pearson has directed his focus on other additional aspects such as child protection, substance abuse, economic development, and welfare. He has notably worked towards the change of Indigenous policy, where he believes that it needs to change direction. This paper will talk about Noel Pearson in general and especially in regards to 'Breaking the Cycle of Indigenous disadvantage.'

In general, Pearson

Social stratification is created when its members are divided into categories through power differentials (Berremen, G. 1972:385). These power differentials being the ‘Ruling class’ and the ‘Bourgeois’. Bourgeois being the working class e.g. the labourers, the individuals giving their time to another individual for economic capital and the ruling class being the economically dominant class (Krieken et al. 2014:211).

Marx argued that all stratification systems are ultimately determined by the distribution of economic resources, hence how the separate classes started. This stratification from the unequal distribution of economic resources meant that the foundations of relationships between the ruling class and the bourgeois are based on domination and exploitation, becoming entrenched in the subconscious over time. He argued that the bourgeois would create a revolution because the economic class would never willingly give up their power and