One Bright Spot

Author(s): Victoria Haskins

First Nations

For every Aboriginal child taken away by the state governments in Australia, there was at least one white family intimately involved in their life. One Bright Spot is about one of these families--about "Ming", a Sydney wife and mother who hired Aboriginal domestic servants in the 20s and 30s, and became an activist against the Stolen Generations policy--the removal of Aboriginal children by the Australian government. Her story, reconstructed by her great-granddaughter, tells of a remarkable, yet forgotten, shared history.

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VICTORIA HASKINS was born in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1967 and lived in the East Kimberley in Western Australia as a child, until moving to Sydney, New South Wales as a teenager. She was educated at Ku-Ring-Gai High School and the University of Sydney. Having worked in bookshops for many years, Victoria moved to the North Coast of New South Wales to run a travelling bookshop there, when she discovered the papers on which this book is based. Later, Victoria worked as a curator of Australian Social History at the National Museum of Australia, in Canberra, before taking up a History lectureshi

Acknowledgements - List of Illustrations - Introduction: More Than My Own Mother to Me - PART I: MARY - My One Bright Spot - All Girls Shall Leave the Reserves - If I Am Coming Back to You All Again - PART II: ALMA - So Desperately Hard to Understand - A Better Chance - PART III: DEL - Was Fearfully Shocked This Afternoon - A Perfect Farce - She Loves Pretty Things and Knows How to Wear Them - You Must Not Go Against These People - There is a Lot of Dark Girls That Went Through It - And So We Are 'Slave Owners' - It Makes Me Rage - A Devotion I Hope I May Fully Repay - PART IV: PEARL GIBBS - Just Ordinary Justice - The Stone of Anthropology - Miss Pink Wants My Help - PART V: JANE - A Free Australian Citizen - The Bitter Disappointment of Trying to Help - Then We Must All Be Insane - Epilogue: She Learnt Her Lessons Well - A Note on Sources - Notes - Bibliography - Index

General Fields

  • : 9781403947444
  • : Palgrave USA
  • : Palgrave Macmillan
  • : July 2005
  • : 216mm X 140mm X 15mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Victoria Haskins
  • : Paperback
  • : 296
  • : black & white illustrations