Hey Mum, What's a Half-caste?
Title | Hey Mum, What's a Half-caste? PDF eBook |
Author | Lorraine McGee-Sippel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Aboriginal Australians |
ISBN | 9781921248030 |
"Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents why her skin colour was different from theirs. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey of unanswered questions that would span decades and lead her to search for her birth family. In the historic climate of the Rudd Government's apology, Yorta Yorta woman, McGee-Sippel, aligns herself with the Stolen Generations as she reveals how she and her family struggled with the far-reaching implications of a government policy that saw her adoptive parents being told their daughter was of Afro-American descent."--Provided by publisher.
The Sense of an Ending
Title | The Sense of an Ending PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Barnes |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2011-10-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307957330 |
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Racial Folly
Title | Racial Folly PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon Briscoe |
Publisher | ANU E Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2010-02-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1921666218 |
Briscoe's grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve 'the half-caste problem'. It gives life to those generations of Aboriginal people assumed to have no history and whose past labels them only as shadowy figures. Briscoe's enthralling narrative combines his, and his contemporaries, institutional and family life with a high-level career at the heart of the Aboriginal political movement at its most dynamic time. It also documents the road he travelled as a seventeen year old fireman on the South Australia Railways to becoming the first Aboriginal person to achieve a PhD in history.
Mixed/Other
Title | Mixed/Other PDF eBook |
Author | Natalie Morris |
Publisher | Trapeze |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2022-04-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781409197157 |
How does it feel when your heritage isn't listed as an option on an identification form? What is it like to grow up as the only person in your family who looks like you? Where do you belong if you are simultaneously seen as being 'too much' of one race and 'not enough' of another to fit neatly into society's expectations? The mixed population is the fastest-growing group in the U.K. today, but the mainstream conversation around mixedness is stilted, repetitive and often problematic. At a time when ethnically ambiguous models fill our Instagram feeds and our high street shop windows, and when children of interracial relationships are lauded as heralding in the dawn of a post-racial utopia, journalist Natalie Morris takes a deep dive into what it really means to be mixed in Britain today. From blackfishing to the fetishization of mixed babies; from the complexities of passing and code-switching to navigating the world of work and dating, Natalie explores the ways in which all of these issues uniquely impact those of mixed heritage. Drawing from a wealth of research, interviews and her own personal experiences, in Mixed/Other, Natalie's aims to dismantle the stereotypes that have plagued mixed people for generations and to amplify the voices of mixed Britons today, shining a light on the struggles and the joys that come with being mixed.
The Tribes and Castes of Bengal
Title | The Tribes and Castes of Bengal PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Herbert Hope Risley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Anthropometry |
ISBN |
Mixed
Title | Mixed PDF eBook |
Author | Chandra Prasad |
Publisher | W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780393327861 |
A volume of short fictional works about the meaning and significance of what it means to be multiracial in today's America includes tales about Peter Ho Davies's confused minotaur, Ruth Ozeki's young biracial detectives, and Wayde Compton's college junkie. Original.
Millennial Black
Title | Millennial Black PDF eBook |
Author | Sophie Williams |
Publisher | HQ |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2022-04-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780008401924 |
For fans of Slay in Your Lane and Little Black Book, this no-nonsense exploration of colour and culture at work is essential reading for Black women in the workplace, their allies and industry change-makers