Makram

At a rugby game in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, in June 1999, Hagan was appalled to hear announcers referring to the grandstand—named after one E.S. "Nigger" Brown—as casually as if it were the name Smith or Jones. The incident marked the start of his legal battle to remove the offensive nickname from the grandstand sign, a fight that went all the way to the United Nations. Hagan's memoir describes how growing up in a fringe camp on the outskirts of a town called Cunnamulla set him on a path of political activism for his Aboriginal peers, not always without controversy even in the Aboriginal community. The volume includes a list of abbreviations and a small (six-item) bibliography but no subject index. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR