Anna Haebich, Steve Mickler

A Boy's Short Life (eBook, ePUB)

The story of Warren Braedon/Louis Johnson

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Louis St John Johnson, born Warren Braedon, was taken from his mother in Alice Springs at just three months old. Despite growing up with the love and care of his adoptive family, Louis was increasingly targeted by school bullies and police for his Aboriginality, and his attempts to find his natural family in Alice Springs were thwarted by bureaucracy. Walking home on his nineteenth birthday, Louis was brutally murdered by a group of white youths 'because he was black'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: UWA Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781742585475
• Artikelnr.: 42043201

Autorenporträt

Anna Haebich is a multi-award winning Australian author and historian, who is especially recognised for her research and work with Aboriginal communities and in particular the Noongar people. She is part of a large Noongar family through marriage. Her career combines university teaching, research, curatorship, creative writing and visual arts. Anna is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University and is currently researching Aboriginal performing arts in Western Australia, past and present. Her publications include Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000, which is the first and most comprehensive national history of Australia's Stolen Generations; the definitive history For Their Own Good: Aborigines and Government in the South West of Western Australia 1900-1940; and Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia.