A Rape of the Soul So Profound: The Return of the Stolen Generation by Read, Peter

A Rape of the Soul So Profound: The return of the Stolen Generation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781864488852)

Vendor: Peter Read
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$54.95
$54.95
$54.95
Subtotal: $54.95
A Rape of the Soul So Profound: The Return of the Stolen Generation by Read, Peter

A Rape of the Soul So Profound: The return of the Stolen Generation

$54.95
A Rape of the Soul So Profound: The Return of the Stolen Generation by Read, Peter

A Rape of the Soul So Profound: The return of the Stolen Generation

$54.95
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x
A Rape of the Soul So Profound began when a young researcher accidentally came upon restricted files in an archives collection. What he read overturned all his assumptions about an important part of Aboriginal experience and Australia's past. The book ends in the present, 20 years later, in the aftermath of the Royal Commission on the Stolen Generations. Along the way Peter Read investigates how good intentions masked policies with inhuman results. He tells the poignant stories of many individuals, some of whom were forever broken and some who went on to achieve great things. This is a book about much sorrow and occasional madness, about governments who pretended things didn't happen, and about the opportunities offered to right a great wrong.

Author: Peter Read
ISBN-10: 1864488859
ISBN-13: 9781864488852
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/01/1999
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.54d
By Peter Read
By Peter Read
x

Peter Read coined the phrase 'the stolen generation', first used by him as a title for a magazine article. In 1981 Peter Read helped create Link-up, an organisation to bring Aborigines who had been abducted back to their parents. It went on to become a major force leading to the Stolen Generation enquiry. On the way Peter wrote many influential publications, including The Lost Children (1988), Charles Perkins: A Biography and Lost Places (1997).

Recently Viewed Products