Anna Haebich, Steve Mickler

A Boy's Short Life (eBook, ePUB)

The story of Warren Braedon/Louis Johnson

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

He never knew his name, he never knew his mother, he never knew his family, he never knew his people, he never knew his country. Born Alice Springs, 4th January, 1973, murdered Perth, 4th January, 1992 ... because he was black. Louis St John Johnson, born Warren Braedon into a Luritja and Arrernte family, 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'. This story captures the dark heart of racism in modern Australia, and the history, government policies and community attitudes that marked this boy out for a short life.

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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.