Peggy Brock Peggy Brock i(A32728 works by) (a.k.a. Margaret Brock)
Born: Established: 1948 Adelaide, South Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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1 [Review] Into the Loneliness: The Unholy Alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates Peggy Brock , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History Journal , April no. 45 2022;

— Review of Into the Loneliness : The Unholy Alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates Eleanor Hogan , 2021 single work biography
'This well-researched book considers the biographies of two independent, eccentric women whose lives overlapped, although they were from different generations: Daisy Bates was born in 1863, Ernestine Hill over 30 years later in 1899. Both women felt more at ease living and travelling away from urban and rural centres, preferring remote Australia, the ‘Loneliness’. Much has already been written about Bates, much less about Hill. Eleanor Hogan became interested in their overlapping stories when she began researching the life of Hill after reading her book The Great Australian Loneliness, and came across correspondence from Bates to Hill that catapulted her into writing this double biography.'
1 Australia : Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History Peggy Brock , 2006 single work essay
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 21 April 2006;

'Bain Attwood is an academic historian whose interests lie in historical method, particularly as it relates to Aboriginal history. With this book he attempts to reach a wider public. In it he sets out to address the debates that raged for many months in Australia over Keith Windschuttle’s attack on academic historians who have written about the experience of Aboriginal people in early colonial history, particularly in Tasmania.'  (Introduction)

1 Jack Highfold and Jack Jebydah Peggy Brock , 1993 single work biography
— Appears in: Outback Ghettos : A History of Aboriginal Institutionalisation and Survival 1993; (p. 78, 79)
1 Jimmy Thomas Richards Peggy Brock , 1993 single work biography
— Appears in: Outback Ghettos : A History of Aboriginal Institutionalisation and Survival 1993; (p. 71, 75)
1 2 y separately published work icon Outback Ghettos : A History of Aboriginal Institutionalisation and Survival Peggy Brock , Melbourne : Cambridge University Press , 1993 Z1582949 1993 selected work

'Up until the 1970s, a large proportion of Aboriginal people in Australia had some experience in institutions as part of federal assimilation and protection policies. Focusing on three communities in South Australia, this book attempts to understand the consequences of this institutionalisation for Aborigines and Australian society in general. Peggy Brock uses the word 'ghetto' to evoke the nature of the missions in which, for generations, many Aboriginal people settled, as ghettos both oppress and nurture those who live within them. The missions were part of policies to control and segregate Aborigines, but the book shows that they often chose to live in the missions to ensure their own survival. Within the missions, Aborigines were able to establish distinctive communities and construct a strong, modern identity. The three communities considered in the book - Poonindie, Koonibba and Nepabunna - existed during distinct but overlapping periods and had varying responses to colonialism and mission life. In many cases, Aboriginal people associated themselves with the missions because they met urgent needs for survival: protection from a hostile world, access to rations, education and training in European skills. In fact, the missions for many became home. For others however, the emotional turmoil caused by the pressure to embrace Christianity on the one hand and the desire to maintain traditional ways on the other became unbearable.' (Source: WorldCat website)

1 Untitled Peggy Brock , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , April vol. 25 no. 98 1992; (p. 146-148)

— Review of Paperbark : A Collection of Black Australian Writings 1990 anthology poetry drama short story criticism prose autobiography biography
1 1 y separately published work icon Yura and Udnyu : A History of the Adnyamathanha of the North Flinders Ranges Peggy Brock , Aboriginal Heritage Branch, SA Dept Environment & Planning , Adelaide : Wakefield Press , 1985 7485191 1985 single work criticism

'General account of Aboriginal/​white relations; violent conflict; traditional lifestyle including relationship to land, marriage and ochre quarry; Nepabunna mission, United Aborigines Mission; brief biographical details of Cecil Stubbs, Rufus Wilton, Claude Demell and Pearl McKenzie; contemporary community development.' (Source: TROVE)

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