| Description |
xxiv, 226 pages : 1 map, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Aboriginal history monograph series ; 20 |
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Aboriginal history monograph series ; 20
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| Contents |
1. My family background, 1890 to 1941 -- 2. Evacuation, Mulgoa to Semaphore, 1938 to 1945 -- 3. Racial theory and a religious solution, 1920s to 1945 -- 4. Pembroke Street to St Francis House, 1946 to 1949 -- 5. Educated men or Christian misfits? 1950 to 1956 -- 6. Life after St Francis House, 1957 to 1964 -- 7. Race relations, work and education, 1964 to 1968 -- 8. University and Aboriginal politics, 1969 to 1971 -- 9. Redfern and the early 1970s -- 10. The Northern Territory, 1972 -- 11. A new era in Aboriginal politics, 1974 to 1981 -- 12. The education years: 1980s -- 13. The 1990s and beyond -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
"Gordon Briscoe's grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve ‘the half-caste problem'. It gives life to those generations of Aboriginal people assumed to have no history and whose past labels them only as shadowy figures. Briscoe's enthralling narrative combines his, and his contemporaries, institutional and family life with a high-level career at the heart of the Aboriginal political movement at its most dynamic time. It also documents the road he travelled as a seventeen year old fireman on the South Australia Railways to becoming the first Aboriginal person to achieve a PhD in history."--Publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) |
| Notes |
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader to read pdf file |
| Subject |
Briscoe, Gordon.
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Briscoe, Gordon., 1938-
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Intellectuals -- Australia -- Biography.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Removal -- Biography
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Aboriginal Australian intellectuals -- Australia -- Biography
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Aboriginal Australian historians -- Biography
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
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Intellectuals -- Australia -- Biography.
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Political activists, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Biography.
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Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Institutional care -- Australia -- South Australia -- Biography.
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Historians -- Australia -- Biography.
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Intellectuals -- Australia.
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Political activists -- Australia -- Biography.
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Political activists, Aboriginal Australian.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Politics and government.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
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Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Institutional care -- Australia -- South Australia.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Author |
ANU E Press.
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| LC no. |
2010530096 |
| ISBN |
9781921666209 (paperback) |
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