Am I black enough for you?

by Heiss, Anita

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Title Statements

Full title :Am I black enough for you? / Anita Heiss.

Summary

"What does it mean to be Aboriginal? Why is Australia so obsessed with notions if identity? Anite 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 ... She is Aboriginal - however, this does not mean she likes to go barefoot and, please, don't 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 Anita's involvement in one of the most important and sensational Australian legal decisions of the twenty-first century when she joined others in charging a newspaper columnist with breaching the Racial Discrimination Act ... In this deeply personal memoir ... 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"--Publisher's description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Hawaiʻi Press
Place of Publication:Honolulu
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012

The Physical Object

Description:346 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780824840273, 0824840275
oclc:ocn870199782
LC Classification:PR9619.4.H345
Dewey Decimal:823/.92

Subjects

Aboriginal Australians Aboriginal Australians -- Biography Australiennes (Aborigènes) -- Biographi… Australiens (Aborigènes) -- Biographies Biographies Heiss, Anita Women, Aboriginal Australian Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biograp…