Remembering Aboriginal heroes : struggle, identity and the media / John Ramsland, Christopher Mooney
- Bib ID:
- 6223942
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ramsland, John, 1942-, author
- Description:
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- Melbourne, Victoria : Brolga Publishing, 2012
- ©2012
- xvi, 373 pages. : illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781922036568
- Summary:
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During the 1940s and '50s, in Australia, many icons of Aboriginal descent rose to prominence, and were representative of the culture of the day, and of their own people. Some permanently influenced the minds of Australians, remaining famous to this day - others have been unjustly forgotten.
- 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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- Namatjira, Albert, 1902-1959
- Blair, Harold, 1924-
- Sands, Dave
- Kunoth, Ngarla
- Tudawali, Robert, 1929-1967
- Saunders, Reginald (Reginald Walter)
- Nicholls, Doug, 1906-1988
- Burnum Burnum, 1936-1997
- Little, Jimmy
- Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal Australians -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Mooney, Christopher, 1959-, author
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2012
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