The Wailing: A National Black Oral History by Stuart Rintoul

The Wailing: A National Black Oral History by Stuart Rintoul

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780855614683
Author: Stuart Rintoul
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: William Heinemann
Place: Milsons Point NSW
Year: 1993
Format: Paperback
Pages: 422 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. All book corners, now protected with book tape. Pages have started to sun. Dedication page is inscribed by author. Interior and binding are still very good.

A hungry young girl sneaks under a missionary's fence and steals the swill from a pigs' trough. Eight children are ripped from the bosom of their families in a single day. A boy is hung in a sack on a clothesline as punishment. A woman gets a letter in the mail telling her that because she has married a white man, she herself is now white. A child runs in terror from the welfare authorities and whispers to her grandmother the question that has haunted black Australia for two centuries: 'Iwenhenge? Why?'

These are just some shocking realities of life for Australia's indigenous people, from behind the stile that divided white and black Australians.

This book is about memories; about the 'long time', of poison in the flour, deadening years of protection and assimilation. But it is also about the pride and power of black Australia in 1993. (Trove)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers, please note that this book may contain descriptions and/or images of people who have passed away.

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