Clive Moore
Autore di Sunshine and rainbows : the development of gay and lesbian culture in Queensland
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Clive Moore is reader in history and head of the history department at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. His research interests relate to northern Australia, New Guinea, and Island Melanesia, and he has published widely on the history of Pacific labor migration, the nineteenth-century mostra altro Melanesian labor trade to Queensland, the lives of the laborers' descendants in Australia, and Australian masculinity and gay studies mostra meno
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There is a troubled history of relations between the indigenous and European peoples of northern Australia, and the introduction of a Pacific islander population into this mix added further complications. But it is a story that until recently wasn't told. Like the Tasmanian Aborigines who were popularly believed to be extinct (but they weren't), the popularly known story of the islanders is that they were the victims of a few bad men, that it had been a very minor affair, and that there weren't any islanders left behind in Australia.
But the truth was that the trade in island labour was a major factor in the development of the sugar industry in Queensland, and of the State generally, and that far from being in issue 'dead and buried', thousands of islanders still lived in Queensland, preserving their separate identity, and in many cases living on the fringes of mainstream culture and opportunity. The real story here, of course, is not about the islanders, but about a country (and a mind set) that could make an entire people invisible even though they lived amongst them.
Highly recommended for anyone interested in the history of the Pacific or of Australia, and particularly for the light it sheds on racial attitudes and relations between European Australians and both the islander community and the indigenous Australian peoples.… (altro)