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Snake Cradle: Autobiography of a Black Woman (Snake Dreaming: Autobiography of a Black Woman #1)
The first volume of Roberta Sykes' three-volume autobiography, chronicling her childhood and teenage years in Townsville in the 1940s and 1950s, to the birth of her son, the result of a gang rape when she was 17.
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(first published October 1st 1997)
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read the series, autobiography of an aboriginal women, must read
I found myself unable to put this book down. I found it disturbing but very enlightening about the level of racism inflicted on the author.
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Roberta "Bobbi" Sykes (b. 1943) is an Australian poet and author. Although she is the daughter of a white Australian mother and an African-American father, she has always identified as, and until recently was accepted as, an indigenous Australian. She has been a life-long campaigner for indigenous land rights, as well as human rights and women's rights.Awards and nominations
1982: Patricia Weickert ...more
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