Böcker av Barbara Jackson

In the early 1980s, Barbara Jackson visited her father in Tennant Creek and was catapulted into the harsh reality of life in an Aboriginal community. Her version of Australian history hadn't prepared her for the racism, the sub-standard living conditions, or the suffering. She decided to do something about it. Barbara's wry humour leavens her lively account of the traumas, frustrations and rewards of working to help empower Aboriginal communities in the face of bureaucratic ineptitude and institutionalised racism. Told with a larrikin's eye for the ridiculous and a sociologist's insight into the structural barriers facing remote communities, it is also the story of a friendship between father and daughter, and the work they shared. A rare combination of engrossing story and history lesson, Crossing Cultures is a book about the outback and its peoples, especially the Indigenous people still fighting for a voice in how their communities are governed.

African American history in this country is still being written. In this family history of the Wardlaws of South Carolina and Arkansas and the Boldens of Tennessee and Arkansas on the one side and the McKinneys, Randalls and Aikens of Georgia and Arkansas on the otther, the author highlights generations going back more that 200 years. Through slavery, the Civil War, Reconstrction and the Civil Rights eras these families lived ad made history in their own right.Genealogy is a unique way to learn about and experience history. Researching and writing about ancestors opens so many doors and provides so much insight into the lives of those who made our own journeys possible. While this book is about the ancestors of the author, it mirrors so many stories of African Ameriscan and other families that have lived, worked, experienced hardship and thirved here in this country.