Sites of segregation/sites of memory

Remembrance and ‘race’ in Australia

Bibliographic Data

ID12905474
AuthorsMaria Nugent (0000-0001-5258-697X, Australian National University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume6
Issue3
Pages299-309
Publication date2013-06-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1750698013482863
OpenAlexW2091600367
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited18

This article considers the interplay between Aboriginal people’s remembrances about race relations in rural mid-twentieth-century Australia and the frames of remembrance provided by the American Civil rights movement. It takes as its focus two key Australian sites of racial segregation – country town cinemas and public swimming pools – to explore the ways in which since, and in no small part due to, the desegregationist politics of the 1960s they have become prominent sites of public memory. Drawing on three examples from a range of media – art, film and published memoirs – the article traces the ways in which different ways of narrating and remembering these ‘twisted spaces’ contributes to and makes possible alternative and at times unsettling interpretations of experiences and histories of relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people during what is commonly referred to as the ‘assimilation era’

Collective memory · Memoir · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis

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