Death Scene Protester
An Aboriginal Rights Activist in 1920s London
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4437751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fiona Paisley (0000-0002-4910-5087, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 867-883 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-1382294 |
| OpenAlex | W2144091043 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
This essay concerns the protest of an Australian Aboriginal man outside Australia House in central London. In the 1920s Anthony Martin Fernando made regular appearances outside Australia House on the Strand. Dressed in a black cloth on which he had sewn tiny skeletons, he expressed his condemnation of recent massacres of Aboriginal people in outback Australia. His activities still contradict assumptions that Aboriginal rights history mostly operated within Australia until the second half of the twentieth century, while for those he met in interwar London, Fernando confronted commonly held notions of Aboriginal demise on a distant frontier. But if the Australia House protests remain impressive for their ingenuity and haunting symbolism, newspaper reports of his testimony in court in 1929 finally provided the publicity he sought for the Aboriginal cause
Demise · Frontier · Genealogy · Ingenuity · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Publicity · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Philosophy
Punishment and welfare
Indigenous Australian people, their defence of the dead and native title
Imagined destinies
The Invention of the Passport
Intimidations of Empire
Australian Aboriginal Activism in Interwar Britain and Europe
Wives and mothers like ourselves? Exploring white women's intervention in the politics of race, 1920s‐1940s
Historical encounters
Billy Blue
Reimagining Aboriginality in the Circus Space
The Political Uses of Alienation
The Campaign for Women Protectors
Race Hysteria, Darwin 1938
Drawing the Global Colour Line
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
Racism, Moral Community, and Australian Aboriginal Autobiographical Testimony
The White Man under Siege
Frantz Fanon and Steve Biko
Along the Archival Grain
Africa's Pasts and Africa's Historians
Tongues Untied
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |