Record Number |
19904 |
ISBN |
9781863958899 |
1863958894 |
ISSN |
1832-0953 |
Location |
305.89 GRA |
Author |
Grant, Stan, 1963- (author.). |
Title |
The Australian dream : blood, history and becoming / Stan Grant ; Correspondence / Patrick Lawrence [and seven others]. |
Other title |
Blood, history and becoming : the Australian dream |
Published |
Carlton, Victoria : Black, Inc, 2016. |
Collation |
113 pages ; 24 cm. |
Content types |
text |
Carrier type |
volume |
Series |
Quarterly essay ; issue 64 |
General Note |
Includes a speech given by Stan Grant on 27 October 2015 at the City Recital Hall, Sydney. |
The speech was made in 2015, and published online just before Australia Day 2016. |
Contents Note |
Includes correspondence from Patrick Lawrence, Nicole Hemmer, Bruce Wolpe, Dennis Altman, David Goodman, Patrick McCaughey, Gary Werskey, Don Watson. |
Summary Note |
"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." - Back Cover. |
Subject |
Race relations - Racial discrimination |
Race relations - Attitudes |
Race relations - Betterment societies, etc |
Colonisation |
Social identity - Aboriginality |
Aboriginal Australians -- Colonization -- History |
Aboriginal Australians -- History |
Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- History |
Aboriginal Australians -- Economic conditions -- History |
Aboriginal Australians -- Colonization. |
Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity |
Aboriginal Australians |
Civilization |
Internet Site |
Ethics Centre Speech 27 October 2015 |