Our Mob Served: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories of war and defending Australia

Cadzow, Allison; Jebb, Mary Anne

ISBN 10: 0855750715 / ISBN 13: 9780855750718

Published by Aboriginal Studies Press, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Our Mob Served: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories of war and defending Australia
• Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0855750715
• ISBN 13: 9780855750718
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

While Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been largely ignored or marginalised in national histories of war and service, they have remembered their involvement in Defence service and the service of their relatives. Our Mob Served presents a moving and little-known history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander war time and defence service, told through the vivid oral histories and treasured family images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This unique book shares lively and compelling stories of war, defence service, and the impact on individuals, families, and communities, sometimes for the first time

About the Author

Allison Cadzow is an historian and researcher. She has co-authored several works including Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal people on Sydney’s Georges River (2009) with Heather Goodall and co-edited and contributed chapters for Nelson Aboriginal Studies (2013) with John Maynard and Brokers and Boundaries: Colonial Exploration in Indigenous Territory (2016) with Tiffany Shellam, Maria Nugent, and Shino Konishi. Allison has worked at University of Technology, Sydney developing a website, community history exhibition, and publications about cultural diversity and park use. She has also worked in curatorial at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra and was a research associate and research fellow at the Australian National University. Mary Anne Jebb has written, edited, and compiled several historical works of non-fiction, including the award-winning book Blood Sweat and Welfare: A History of White Bosses and Aboriginal Pastoral Workers (2002, reprinted 2014), which received the Hancock Award for History and was short listed for several literature awards. She edited and compiled Emerarra: A Man of Merarra published in 1996 and Mowanjum: Fifty Years Community History in 2008. She is known for her histories of inclusion that reinterpret and enrich written historical records through collaborative oral history. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in History at the Australian National University and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.