The Australian dream : blood, history and becoming / Stan Grant
- Bib ID:
- 7293247
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Grant, Stan, 1963-, author
- Description:
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- Collingwood, Victoria Black Inc, 2016
- 113 pages ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 1863958894
- 9781863958899
- Series:
- Quarterly essay (Melbourne, Vic.) ; issue 64. 1832-0953
- Summary:
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In a landmark essay, Stan Grant writes Indigenous people back into the economic and multicultural history of Australia. This is the fascinating story of how fringe dwellers fought not just to survive, but to prosper. Their legacy is the extraordinary flowering of Indigenous success – cultural, sporting, intellectual and social – that we see today. Yet this flourishing co-exists with the boys of Don Dale, and the many others like them who live in the shadows of the nation. Grant examines how such Australians have been denied the possibilities of life, and argues eloquently that history is not destiny; that culture is not static. In doing so, he makes the case for a more capacious Australian Dream.
- Full contents:
- Includes correspondence: Patrick Lawrence, Nicole Hemmer, Bruce Wolpe, Dennis Altman, David Goodman, Patrick McCaughey, Gary Werskey, Don Watson.
- Notes:
- Includes a speech given by Stan Grant on 27 October 2015 at the City Recital Hall, Sydney, New South Wales.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Cultural assimilation -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Colonization -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity
- Aboriginal Australians -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Economic conditions -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- History
- Australia -- Race relations -- History
- Australian
- Also Titled:
- QE 64 2016
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2016
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