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Description

1. xiv, 274 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. 'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitudes to Indigenous people. His now-classic book The Whispering in Our Hearts constructed an alternative history of Australia through the eyes of those who felt disquiet and disgust at the brutality of dispossession. These men and women fought for justice for Indigenous people even when doing so left them isolated and criticised by their fellow whites. The unease of these humanitarians about the morality of white settlement has not dissipated and their legacy informs current debates about reconciliation between black and white Australia. Revisiting this history, in this new edition Reynolds brings fresh perspectives to issues we grapple with still. Those who argue for justice, reparation, recognition and a treaty will find themselves in solidarity with those who went before. But this powerful book shows how much remains to be done to settle the whispering in our hearts.

Subject

1. Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
2. Race discrimination
3. Australia
4. Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of > History
5. Race discrimination > Australia
6. Gribble, E. R. B (Ernest Richard Bulmer), 1869-1957
7. Aboriginal Australians > Government relations
8. Australia > Race relations
9. Race relations
10. First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners
11. Aboriginal Australians > History
12. Gribble, J. B (John Brown), 1847-1893
13. Coniston Station (N.T.) > History > 20th century
14. Threlkeld, L. E (Lancelot Edward), 1788-1859
15. Milne, Robert Lyon, 1789-1874
16. Carley, David
17. Caledon Bay (N.T.) > History > 20th century
18. Humanitarianism
19. Aboriginal Australians > First contact with Europeans
20. 1900-1999
21. Civil rights > Australia
22. Bennett, Mary, 1881-1961
23. Giustiniani, Louis
24. Angelo, E. F
25. Robinson, George Augustus, 1791-1866
26. History
27. Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions

Genre/Form

1. History.

Call number

1. JFE 19-5962

Note

1. First edition published in 1998.
2. Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Reynolds, Henry, 1938- author.

Title

1. This whispering in our hearts revisited / Henry Reynolds.

Publisher

1. Sydney : Newsouth, 2018.

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

ISBN

1. 9781742235622 (paperback)
2. 174223562X (paperback)

Research call number

1. JFE 19-5962