The N Word: One Man's Stand

The N Word: One Man's Stand is an autobiography by Aboriginal activist Stephen Hagan, and it is also an account of his fight to have the word "Nigger" removed from a sign at the Toowoomba sports oval.[1]

The N Word: One Man's Stand
AuthorStephen Hagan
LanguageEnglish
GenreBiography
PublisherMagabala Books
Publication date
2005
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages275
ISBN978-1-875641-98-7
OCLC60651773
305.89915 22
LC ClassDU123.3 .H34 A3 2005

"The E. S. 'Nigger' Brown Stand" was so named in 1960 to honour the rugby league player Edwin Stanley Brown (1898–1972) as a distinguished local sportsman. The government at the time, the Howard government, rejected a recommendation by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Hagan v Australia[2] to remove the sign. The book also gives an account of Hagan's own conflicts with Aboriginal power brokers, initially over his resistance to nepotism and lack of accountability and later in relation to the sign. He gives his account of an irregularly called "community meeting", the assistance he provided to Aboriginal people and groups that were not assisted by the publicly funded Aboriginal bodies. Also included is an account of his clash with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission's deputy chair Sugar Ray Robinson.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Ernst Willheim (2005). "Book Review: The N Word: One Man's Stand". Indigenous Law Bulletin. 6 (20) – via Australasian Legal Information Institute.
  2. ^ "Stephen Hagan v. Australia", Communication No. 26/2002, U.N. Doc. CERD/C/62/D/26/2002 (2003) – via University of Minnesota, Human Rights Library