Research Catalog

Title

I'm not racist, but ... : a collection of social observations / Anita Heiss.

Author

Heiss, Anita.

Publication

Cambridge, U.K. : Salt, 2007.

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Description

86 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Represents the social observation, thoughts and conversations the author has had over 15 years travelling Australia and the world; as a tourist, as a writer, as an academic, and always as a proud, strong, contemporary Aboriginal woman.

Subject

• Australian poetry > Women authors
• Australian poetry > Aboriginal Australian authors

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Apologies -- Aboriginal studies -- Anthropology is ... -- Who's truth -- Different lives, different values -- Indigenous intellectuals -- I don't hate you, but ... -- My other -- My 10 point plan for a better Australia -- Ode to my mother -- Pieces for peace -- For our children -- Making Aborigines -- Us and them -- Advance Australia -- unfair -- Checkerboard love -- Expectations -- Untitled -- The Creator's prayer -- Holier than thou -- Thoughts -- Considering self -- Why I write -- Pearls from an old aunty -- What I know -- Dreaming you -- Stop asking me ... -- What is the spirit of Australia? -- I'm not racist but ... -- Integrity -- Sorry -- Treaty -- I heard you -- My father's homeland -- My friend the therapist said ... -- White and black poetry readings : distinct differences -- An Oztralian preamble -- The A-Z of first contact -- Anger -- Reconciliation #1 -- Reconciliation #2 -- Token Kooris : blackfellas for hire (radio play) -- My best friend's white -- Invisible whiteness -- Coffee coloured -- Tolerated but not valued -- Face the truth -- Being Aboriginal -- Bicultural blackfella -- But you're not really an Aborigine -- Identity -- Kahnawake -- Leon Carmen -- Proud to be Koori -- We have survived -- What psyches you?

ISBN

• 1844713164 (pbk.)
• 9781844713165 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 153575962
• SCSB-11486533

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library