| Description |
xi, 152 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
Black Australian writers |
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UQP paperbacks |
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UQP Black Australian writers.
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| Contents |
Firing On in the Mind -- Wedmedi - If Only You Knew -- Writing My Mother's Life -- But You Couldn't Possibly ... -- Are All the Women White? -- Reflections of Lilith -- White Apron Black Hands: Aboriginal Women Domestic Servants in Queensland -- Respect versus Political Correctness -- The Great Deception: Working Inside the Bureaucracy -- The Mothering Tongue -- Kooramindanjie: Place and the Postcolonial -- Oppressed but Liberated -- Experience and Identity: Writing History -- Auntie Rita's File -- Queensland: Is the Clock Still Back 100 years? -- Bringing Them Home |
| Summary |
The articles in this collection represent a decade of writing by Aboriginal historian and activist Jackie Huggins. Sister Girl examines many topics, including community action, political commitment, the tradition and the value of oral history, and government intervention in Aboriginal lives. It challenges accepted notions of the appropriateness of mainstream feminism in Aboriginal society and of white historians writing Indigenous history. Closer to home, there are accounts of personal achievement and family experience as she revisits the writing of Auntie Rita with her mother Rita Huggins - the inspiration for her lifework |
| Notes |
Aboriginal content |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Audience |
Secondary grades |
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Secondary |
| Subject |
Huggins, Jack
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Huggins, Jackie.
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Huggins, Rita, 1921-
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Aboriginal Australian women authors
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Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity.
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Aboriginal Australians -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Women.
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Aboriginal Australians.
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Women, Aboriginal Australian, Treatment of
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Women, Aboriginal Australian.
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| LC no. |
99180904 |
| ISBN |
0702228400 |
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