Am I Black Enough For You

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: BANTAM AUSTRALIA ORIGINAL
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 346 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Winner of the Vic Premiers Award for Indigenous Writing.The story of an urban-based high achieving Aboriginal woman working to break down stereotypes and build bridges between black and white Australia. Im Aboriginal. Im just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be. What does it mean to be Aboriginal Why is Australia so obsessed with notions of identity Anita Heiss, successful author and passionate campaigner for Aboriginal literacy, was born a member of the Wiradjuri nation of central New South Wales, but was raised in the suburbs of Sydney and educated at the local Catholic school. She is Aboriginal - however, this does not mean she likes to go barefoot and, please, dont ask her to camp in the desert. After years of stereotyping Aboriginal Australians as either settlement dwellers or rioters in Redfern, the Australian media have discovered a new crime to charge them with: being too fair-skinned to be an Australian Aboriginal. Such accusations led to Anitas involvement in one of the most important and sensational Australian legal decisions of the 21st-century when she joined others in charging a newspaper columnist with breaching the Racial Discrimination Act. He was found guilty, and the repercussions continue. In this deeply personal memoir, told in her distinctive, wry style, Anita Heiss gives a first-hand account of her experiences as a woman with an Aboriginal mother and Austrian father, and explains the development of her activist consciousness. Read her story and ask: what does it take for someone to be black enough for you

ISBN: 9781742751924