Nowhere People
'That's how at six at night on 11 May 1928 I stopped being a Yanyuwa child and became a nowhere person... Motherless, cultureless and stuck in a government institution because my mother was Aboriginal and my father was not. I ceased to be an Aboriginal but I would never be white. I was not something bad, shameful, called a half-caste.' - Hilda Jarman MuirIn the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, people of mixed Aboriginal and European ancestry - half-castes - were commonly assumed to be morally and physically defective, unstable and degenerate. They bore the brunt of society's contempt, and the remobal of their children created Australia's s…
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- ISBN: 978-1-74228-423-1
- EAN: 9781742284231
- Produktnummer: 37261138
- Verlag: Penguin Books Australia
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 300 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'764 KB
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Henry Reynolds
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