Today we're traveling to Australia and Vietnam with The Sapphires! Join us for a discussion of MLK as a global figure, the Stolen Generations, segregation in Australia, and more!

Sources:

Martin Luther King, Jr:

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vision Was More Global Than We Remember. The World Mourned Him Accordingly. Time. Available at https://time.com/5224787/martin-luther-king-global-vision/

Martin Luther King, Jr. "Beyond Vietnam: Time to Break the Silence." Available at https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

Vicki L Crawford and Lewis Baldwin, Reclaiming the Great World House: The Global Vision of Martin Luther King Jr. University of Georgia Press, 2019.

Jennifer Clark, "'The Winds of Change' in Australia: Aborigines and the International Politics of Race, 1960-1972. International History Review 20, 1 (1998)National Geographic: "Martin Luther King Streets Worldwide". Available at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/martin-luther-king-streets-worldwide/

The USO:

Ann-Mari Jordens, "Not 'Apocalypse Now': Government-Sponsored Australian Entertainers in Vietnam, 1965-1971," Labour History 58 (1990).

Meghan K Winchell, Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun: The Story of USO Hostesses During WWII. University of North Carolina Press. 

USO. "USO Camp Shows, D-Day, and Entertaining Troops on the European Front Lines in WWII," Available at https://www.uso.org/stories/2368-uso-camp-shows-d-day-and-entertaining-troops-on-the-european-front-lines-in-wwii

Production Background:

Behind the scenes: https://youtu.be/vb1VfqPM4QA 

Nell Minow Review https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-sapphires-2013  https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_sapphires_2012 

BTS: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sapphires-featurette-goes-behind-scenes-595519  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sapphires_(film)  https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/people-became-famous-using-backstage-7384/  

Segregation in Australia:

Hogg, Russell. "Penality and modes of regulating Indigenous peoples in Australia." Punishment & Society 3, no. 3 (2001): 355-379.  

Nugent, Maria. "Sites of segregation/sites of memory: remembrance and ‘race’in Australia." Memory Studies 6, no. 3 (2013): 299-309. 

 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-10/how-racial-segregation-was-exposed-at-an-australian-hotel/10887128  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummeragunja_Reserve Parliament: https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1718/Quick_Guides/IndigenousParliamentarians#_ftn1 

Nauru detention: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45327058  

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/23/racism-pervades-australian-society-and-the-effects-can-be-lethal  

The Stolen Generations:

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) (1997) Bringing them
home - report of the national inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander children and their families. Sydney: Commonwealth of Australia.  https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/bringing-them-home-report-1997 

Dudgeon, Pat, Michael Wright, Yin Paradies, Darren Garvey, and Iain Walker. "The social, cultural and historical context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians." 

Working together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice (2010): 25-42. https://www.academia.edu/download/45867982/paradies-socialculturalhistorical-2010.pdf  

Cassidy, Julie. "The Stolen Generations-Canada and Australia: The Legacy of Assimilation." (2006): 131.