- Title
- Marching to a different beat: the influence of the international black diaspora on Aboriginal Australia
- Creator
- Maynard, John
- Relation
- Indigenous Networks: Mobility, Connections and Exchange p. 262-272
- Relation
- Routledge Studies in Cultural History 29
- Relation
- http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415730426/
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- This chapter will examine the transnational political influence of the international black diaspora across the twentieth century, focussing on its impacts on Aboriginal Australia. It is critically important to understand how oppressed groups around the globe have interacted, communicated and established lone-standing connections and affiliations in the past. These networks offered support, encouragement and, importantly, a sense of communal strength and unity (see Ballantyne, Bressey and de Costa, this volume). Aboriginal people have seen the importance of international connection alliances for more than a century. Aboriginal activists, cricketers, footballers, boxers, circus performers, jockeys and also maritime workers (see Russell, this volume) either travelled widely or had contact with members of the international black diaspora and subsequently broadened their own perspectives and outlook. For instance, the work of Heather Goodall and Fiona Paisley detailing the courageous political one-man campaign of Anthony Martin Fernando in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries demonstrates the productive intersections between labour mobility and political exchange among Indigenous activists. A toymaker and activist who worked in an engineering workshop in Milan after the war, Fernando took his political grievances to Europe, staging protests on the streets of London, Rome and Geneva. His political activity was followed closely back in Australia by Aboriginal people who drew great pride and inspiration from his protest.
- Subject
- indigenous peoples; globalisation; imperial and colonial history
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1066236
- Identifier
- uon:18056
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780415730426
- Language
- eng
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