Remembering Aboriginal heroes : struggle, identitiy and the media / John Ramsland and Christopher Mooney
- Bib ID:
- 3698059
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ramsland, John, 1942-, author
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- Description:
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- Melbourne : Brolga Publishing, [2006]
- ©2006
- xvi, 374 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm
- ISBN:
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- 192078585X
- 9781920785857
- Summary:
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Each chapter is a biographical account of an Aboriginal person who achieved in their field in the 1950s; explores the development of their public persona in the media, against the backdrop of the assimilation policy.
- Incomplete contents:
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- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Albert Namatjira : the artist
- Harold Blair : the tenor
- Dave Sands : the boxer
- Ngarla Kunoth and Robert Tudawali : the actors
- Reg Saunders : the soldier
- Doug Nicholls : the preacher
- Harry Penrith : the activist
- Jimmy Little : the singer
- Enduring legacies
- Notes and references
- Credits.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- Kunoth, Ngarla
- Nicholls, Doug
- Penrith, Harry
- Little, Jimmy
- Namatjira, Albert, 1902-1959
- Grant, Douglas, 1885-1951
- Blair, Harold, 1924-1976
- Sands, Dave, 1926-1952
- Kunoth-Monks, Rosie
- Tudawali, Robert, 1929-1967
- Unaipon, David, 1872-1967
- Saunders, Reg, 1920-1990
- Nicholls, Doug, 1906-1988
- Lee, Georgia
- Dalaithngu, David, 1953-2021
- Burnum Burnum, 1936-1997
- Little, Jimmy, 1937-2012
- Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity
- Aboriginal Australians -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Biography
- History - Biographies - Indigenous
- Race relations - Representation - Media
- Government policy - Assimilation
- Aboriginal Australians
- Australia
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Mooney, Christopher Gerald, 1959-, author
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2006
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