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Polynesian Panthers : Pacific protest and affirmative action in Aotearoa New Zealand 1971-1981 / edited by Melani Anae with Lautofa Iuli and Leilani Burgoyne.

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Polynesian Panthers : Pacific protest and affirmative action in Aotearoa New Zealand 1971-1981 / edited by Melani Anae with Lautofa Iuli and Leilani Burgoyne.
Publication
Wellington : Huia Publishers, 2015.

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Additional Authors
  • Anae, Melani
  • Iuli, Lautofa
  • Tamu, Leilani
Description
xxi, 153 pages; illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary
"Polynesian Panthers records the Pacific rights and social activist movement in New Zealand, told by those who were there. Forming in 1971, the Polynesian Panthers sought to raise consciousness and took action in response to the racism and discrimination Pacific peoples faced in New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s. The Panthers organised prison visit programmes and sporting and debating teams for inmates; provided a halfway-house service for young men released from prison; ran homework centres; and offered 'people's loans', legal aid and food banks that catered for 600 families at their height. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, poetry, newspaper articles and critical analysis, Polynesian Panthers is a thought-provoking account of this period in New Zealand"--Publisher information.
Subject
  • Polynesian Panther Party > History
  • 1900-1999
  • Polynesian Panther Party > History > 20th century
  • Youth > History > New Zealand > 20th century
  • Polynesians > Civil rights > New Zealand
  • Polynesians > New Zealand > Social conditions > 20th century
  • Youth, Māori > Political activity > New Zealand > 20th century
  • Mautohe
  • Noho-ā-iwi
  • Whakahāwea iwi
  • Tāngata o Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa
  • Āhuatanga pāpori
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Key events 1971-1981 -- Foreword / David Hilliard -- Introduction -- 1. From Falealili to Ponsonby -- 2. The 'New-Zealand-born' experience -- 3. Ponsonby: the 'little Polynesia in New Zealand': and the gang experience -- 4. From gang to Polynesian Panther Movement -- 5. From Polynesian Panther movement to Polynesian Panther Party -- 6. 'Once a Panther, always a Panther'
ISBN
  • 9781775502050
  • 1775502058
OCLC
  • 922562854
  • SCSB-12056373
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library