Talking to my country

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Label

Talking to my country

Statement of responsibility

Stan Grant

Creator

• trueGrant, Stan, 1963-

Author

• trueGrant, Stan, 1963-

Subject

• trueAustralian
• trueSociety and culture -- Race
• Reconciliation -- Australia
• trueSocial conflict -- Australia
• trueReconciliation
• trueAustralia -- Race relations -- 21st century
• trueRacism -- Australia
• trueAboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
• trueAboriginal Australians, Treatment of
• trueAustralian literature
• trueAboriginal Australians
• Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- 21st century
• trueLife stories -- Identity | Race and ethnicity
• trueAutobiographies and memoirs

Genre

• trueAutobiographies and memoirs
• trueSociety and culture
• trueAustralian literature
• trueLife stories

Language

eng

Summary

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 went viral, not only in Australia but right around the world, shared over 100,000 times on social media. His was a personal, passionate and powerful response to racism in Australia and the sorrow, shame, anger and hardship of being an indigenous man. 'We are the detritus of the brutality of the Australian frontier', he wrote, 'We remained a reminder of what was lost, what was taken, what was destroyed to scaffold the building of this nation's prosperity.' Stan Grant was lucky enough to find an escape route, making 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, 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?

Storyline

• trueOwn voices

Tone

• trueSobering
• trueThought-provoking

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Award

Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book, 2016

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

305.89915

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult