Sites of segregation/sites of memory: Remembrance and 'race' in Australia

Nugent, Maria

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Sites of segregation/sites of memory: Remembrance and 'race' in Australia

Date

2013

Authors

Nugent, Maria

Publisher

Sage Publications Inc

Abstract

This article considers the interplay between Aboriginal people's remembrances about race relations in rural mid-twentieth-century Australia and the frames of remembrance provided by the American Civil rights movement. It takes as its focus two key Austral