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Talking to My Country

Author
Grant, Stan
Price
NZ$25.00
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An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture and national identity.

In July 2015, as the debate over Adam Goodes being booed at AFL games raged and got ever more heated and ugly, Stan Grant wrote a short but powerful piece for The Guardian that almost immediately went viral, not only in Australia but right around the world, being shared over 100,000 times on social media. His was a personal, passionate and powerful response to racism in Australian and the sorrow, shame, anger and hardship of being an indigenous man.

Stan Grant was lucky enough to find an escape route from 'the forlorn realities of a life of defeat' and he made his way through education to become one of our leading journalists. He also spent many years outside Australia, working in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa, a time that liberated him and gave him a unique perspective on Australia. This is his very personal meditation on what it means to be Australian, and what it means to be indigenous, and what racism really means in this country.

'Talking to My Country' is that rare and special book that talks to every Australian about their country - what it is, and what it could be. It is not just about race, or about indigenous people but all of us, our shared identity. Direct, honest and forthright, Stan is talking to us all. He might not have all the answers but he wants us to keep on asking the question: how can we be better?

Format
Second hand Hardback
ISBN
9781460751978
Catalog
SKU
60271

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