Breaking the silence : aboriginal defenders and the Settler State, 1905--1939 /

Breaking the Silence recovers the conflicted politics of Aboriginal affairs in the first decades of the twentieth century. From 1905, when the report of the controversial Roth Royal Commission in Western Australia was made known to the public, to the eve of World War II, the condition, status and tr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Holland, Alison (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Victoria : Melbourne University Publishing, 2019.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions > 20th century.
Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Mœurs et coutumes > 20e siècle.
HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand
Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions
Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Remembering : dispossession, past wrongs and ancestral beginnings
  • The weight of responsibility : repaying a debt and saving a race
  • A plea for the remnant : promoting an Aboriginal future
  • The sex question : the lot of Aboriginal women
  • Civilising the frontier : demanding women protectors
  • Compelling evidence : the rights of Aboriginal wives
  • no good purpose : containment and consignment Kancubina : a vignette
  • Under the black flag : claiming freedom, justice and representation.

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