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Paperback | 28 July 2005 | Edition Number 1

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02 For every Aboriginal child taken away by the state governments in Australia, there was at least one white family intimately involved in their life. One Bright Spot is about one of these families--about "Ming", a Sydney wife and mother who hired Aboriginal domestic servants in the 20s and 30s, and became an activist against the Stolen Generations policy--the removal of Aboriginal children by the Australian government. Her story, reconstructed by her great-granddaughter, tells of a remarkable, yet forgotten, shared history.

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'Victoria Haskins' fine book fills a much-needed gap in our understanding of Australia's history. For too long we have heard the stories of one side or the other; colonised or colonisers. One Bright Spot delicately rounds out our understanding by revealing to us the complexity of the relationships that emerged through the cross-cultural interactions of the early part of the twentieth century. The evocative prose resists sentimentality and romanticisation and delights the reader with an exquisite novel-like writing style. At the end of it one is struck by Haskins' rare combination of scholarly rigor, passion and a personal connection, which she both embraces and critiques'. Professor Lynette Russell, Monash University

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Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction: More Than My Own Mother to Me
Mary
My One Bright Spot
All Girls Shall Leave the Reserves
If I Am Coming Back to You All Again
Alma
So Desperately Hard to Understand
A Better Chance
Del
Was Fearfully Shocked This Afternoon
A Perfect Farce
She Loves Pretty Things and Knows How to Wear Them
You Must Not Go against These People
There Is a Lot of Dark Girls That Went through It
And So We Are 'Slave Owners'
It Makes Me Rage
A Devotion I Hope I May Fully Repay
Pearl Gibbs
Just Ordinary Justice
The Stone of Anthropology
Miss Pink Wants My Help
Jane
A Free Australian Citizen
The Bitter Disappointment of Trying to Help
Then We Must All Be Insane
Epilogue: She Learnt Her Lessons Well
A Note on Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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