| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: More Than My Own Mother to Me -- PART I: MARY -- My One Bright Spot -- All Girls Shall Leave the Reserves -- If I Am Coming Back to You All Again -- PART II: ALMA -- So Desperately Hard to Understand -- A Better Chance -- PART III: DEL -- Was Fearfully Shocked This Afternoon -- A Perfect Farce -- She Loves Pretty Things and Knows How to Wear Them -- You Must Not Go Against These People -- There is a Lot of Dark Girls That Went Through It -- And So We Are 'Slave Owners' -- It Makes Me Rage -- A Devotion I Hope I May Fully Repay -- PART IV: PEARL GIBBS -- Just Ordinary Justice -- The Stone of Anthropology -- Miss Pink Wants My Help -- PART V: JANE -- A Free Australian Citizen -- The Bitter Disappointment of Trying to Help -- Then We Must All Be Insane -- Epilogue: She Learnt Her Lessons Well -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
For every Aboriginal child taken away from their family in Australia, there was at least one white family intimately involved in their life. One Bright Spot tells the story of one of these families. Joan Kingsley-Strack, or 'Ming', as her family knew her, was a well-to-do Sydney wife and mother who hired Aboriginal domestic servants in the 20s and 30s. Girls forcibly taken by the state, and put out to work in an attempt to erase the Aboriginal race. But Ming would turn against the system, to join with Aboriginal political activists in calling for Aboriginal citizenship rights and an end to Aboriginal child removal. Many years later, her great-granddaughter stumbled across Ming's papers, lying forgotten and untouched. Reconstructed from these papers in consultation with the Aboriginal women's descendents, Ming's story tells of a remarkable, poignant, and long-silenced history of women's relationships, across insurmountable barriers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Strack, Joan Kingsley
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| SUBJECT |
Strack, Joan Kingsley fast |
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Women, Yuin -- Australia -- Wallaga Lake Region (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions
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Women, Yuin -- Relocation -- Australia -- Wallaga Lake Region (N.S.W.)
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Women, Yuin -- Public welfare -- Australia -- Wallaga Lake Region (N.S.W.)
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Yuin (Australian people) -- Australia -- Wallaga Lake Region (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions
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Child welfare -- Australia.
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Indigenous peoples -- Australia.
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Social & cultural anthropology -- Australia.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Society.
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Politics and government
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Race relations
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Mädchen
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Widerstand
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Wallaga Lake (N.S.W.) -- Race relations
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Wallaga Lake (N.S.W.) -- Politics and government
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New South Wales -- Wallaga Lake
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New South Wales -- Wallaga Lake Region
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Aborigines.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005047297 |
| ISBN |
9780230510593 |
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0230510590 |
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