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A review by moosegurl
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
challenging
informative
slow-paced
4.0
"The arrival of my branch of the family in Perth was the result of a journey undertaken by my great-grandmother that was not her choice. Like so many others, she was a member of the Stolen Generations, as was my grandmother after her.
People ask me sometimes if I experienced any racism when I was a kid. Questions like that always make me wonder where the other person is living. They seem to be speaking to me from some kind of magical Australia, where it's possible for an indigenous person to escape the effects of racism in a colonized land. But that's not the Australia I know. It would be surprising if it was, given that the entitlement of the colonizers to the soil was founded on the alleged superiority of western Europe ways of life, over those of indigenous peoples."
People ask me sometimes if I experienced any racism when I was a kid. Questions like that always make me wonder where the other person is living. They seem to be speaking to me from some kind of magical Australia, where it's possible for an indigenous person to escape the effects of racism in a colonized land. But that's not the Australia I know. It would be surprising if it was, given that the entitlement of the colonizers to the soil was founded on the alleged superiority of western Europe ways of life, over those of indigenous peoples."
Graphic: Suicide
Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Xenophobia