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Black and blue : a memoir of racism and resilience / Veronica Gorrie.

Black and blue : a memoir of racism and resilience / Veronica Gorrie.
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ISBN 9781925849240 (paperback)
Name Gorrie, Veronica author.
Title Black and blue : a memoir of racism and resilience / Veronica Gorrie.
Edition Australian edition.
Published Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2021.
©2021
Description 243 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within and beyond the Australian police force. A proud Kurnai woman, Veronica Gorrie grew up dauntless, full of cheek and a fierce sense of justice. After watching her friends and family suffer under a deeply compromised law-enforcement system, Gorrie signed up for training to become one of a rare few Aboriginal police officers in Australia. In her ten years in the force, she witnessed appalling institutional racism and sexism, and fought past those things to provide courageous and compassionate service to civilians in need, many Aboriginal themselves. With a great gift for storytelling and a wicked sense of humour, Gorrie frankly and movingly explores the impact of racism on her family and her life, the impact of intergenerational trauma resulting from cultural dispossession, and the inevitable difficulties of making her way as an Aboriginal woman in the white-and-male-dominated workplace of the police force. Black and Blue is a memoir of remarkable fortitude and resilience, told with wit, wisdom, and great heart.
Subjects Gorrie, Veronica
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography
Aboriginal Australian police -- Biography
Policewomen -- Australia -- Biography
Genre Autobiographies
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