Rape of the Soul So Profound

The return of the Stolen Generation

AvPeter Read

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

A Rape of the Soul So Profound began when a young researcher accidentally came upon restricted files in an archives collection. What he read overturned all his assumptions about an important part of Aboriginal experience and Australia's past. The book ends in the present, 20 years later, in the aftermath of the Royal Commission on the Stolen Generations. Along the way Peter Read investigates how good intentions masked policies with inhuman results. He tells the poignant stories of many individuals, some of whom were forever broken and some who went on to achieve great things. This is a book about much sorrow and occasional madness, about governments who pretended things didn't happen, and about the opportunities offered to right a great wrong.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-03-31
Mått:129 x 198 x undefined mm
Vikt:630 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367717346

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Peter Read coined the phrase 'the stolen generation', first used by him as a title for a magazine article. In 1981 Peter Read helped create Link-up, an organisation to bring Aborigines who had been abducted back to their parents. It went on to become a major force leading to the Stolen Generation enquiry. On the way Peter wrote many influential publications, including The Lost Children (1988), Charles Perkins: A Biography and Lost Places (1997).

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefacePrologue: The Stolen Generations: Who are we ?1.The oral evidence2.The written evidence3.The Stolen Generations4.'Like being born all over again': the establishment of Link-Up6.At the edge of the firelight: coming home, partly7.Calling in the accounts8.Sorry business9.In the courts: 'In the middle of the ocean, drowning'BibliographyEndnotesIndex