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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.
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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.
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