Growing up Aboriginal in Australia / edited by Anita Heiss.

ISBN:

9781863959810

Title:

Author:

Heiss, Anita, 1968-, editor.

Physical Description:

311 pages : portraits ; 21 cm.

General Note:

Teaching notes by Dr Marnee Shay available from publisher's web site: https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/sites/default/files/Growing%20Up%20Aboriginal_Teaching%20Notes.pdf.

Contents:

Introduction / Anita Heiss -- Two tiddas / Susie and Alice Anderson -- Finding ways home / Evlyn Araluen -- It's not over / Bebe Backhouse -- My story / Alicia Bates -- Dear Australia / Don Bemrose -- My father has a story / Tony Birch -- Murri + Migloo = Meeks Mob / Norleen Brinkworth -- Easter, 1969 / Katie Bryan -- So much still pending / Deborah Cheetham -- 'This is Nat, she's Abo' / Natalie Cromb -- Thanks for the childhood travels / Karen Davis -- Growing up beige / Ian Dudley -- Yuya Karraburra / Alice Eather -- White bread dreaming / Shannon Foster -- There are no halves / Jason Goninan -- The sporting life / Adam Goodes -- A Tasmanian Toomelah tiger / Jodi Haines -- I remember / John Hartley -- The streets of my youth / Terri Janke -- What it's like / Keira Jenkins -- My life's voyage / Patrick Johnson -- Red dust kids / Scott Kennedy -- December 21 / Sharon Kingaby -- Growing up, grow up, grown-ups / Ambelin Kwaymullina -- Far enough away to be on my way back home / Jack Latimore -- Black bum / Celeste Liddle -- Recognised / Mathew Lyllyst -- Just a young girl / Taryn Little -- Stranger danger / Amy McQuire -- Grey / Melanie Mununggurr-Williams -- Different times / Doreen Nelson -- When did you first realise you were Aboriginal? / Sharon Payne -- 'Abo Nose' / Zachary Penrith-Puchalski -- Too white to be black, too black to be white . . . / Carol Pettersen -- Living between two knowledge systems / Todd Phillips -- The little town on the railway track / Kerry Reed-Gilbert -- A story from my life / William Russell -- Cronulla to Papuny / Marlee Silva -- Letterbox-gate / Liza-Mare Syron -- From Marree to the city / Frank Szekely -- Nobody puts Baby Spice in a corner / Miranda Tapsell -- Daredevil days / Jared Thomas -- Finding my belonging / Ceane G. Towers -- My childhood / Aileen Walsh -- Life lessons, or something like them / Shahni Wellington -- It's too hot / Alexis West -- Aboriginemo / Alison Whittaker -- Split affinity / John Williams-Mozley -- First, second, third, fourth / Tara June Winch -- The Aboriginal equation / Tamika Worrell -- Notes on Contributors.

Subject Term:

Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.

Aboriginal Australians -- Australia.

Aboriginal Australians -- History.

Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.

Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

Australian literature.

Aboriginal Australians -- Anecdotes.

Aboriginal Australians -- Biography.

Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity.

Added Author:

Heiss, Anita, 1968-,

Format:

Books

Publication Date:

2018

Publication Information:

Carlton, VIC :

Black Inc.,

[2018]

Available:*

Shelf Number	Material Type	Copy	Shelf Location	Status
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Summary

.Childhood stories of family, country and belonging

What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile identities sit alongside those from newly discovered writers of all ages. All of the contributors speak from the heart - sometimes calling for empathy, oftentimes challenging stereotypes, always demanding respect.

This groundbreaking collection will enlighten, inspire and educate about the lives of Aboriginal people in Australia today.

Contributors include- Tony Birch, Deborah Cheetham, Adam Goodes, Terri Janke, Patrick Johnson, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Jack Latimore, Celeste Liddle, Amy McQuire, Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Miranda Tapsell, Jared Thomas, Aileen Walsh, Alexis West, Tara June Winch, and many, many more.

Author Notes

Dr. Anita Heiss is an Australian author, poet, cultural activist, and social commentator. She was born in 1968 in Gadigal country and is a member of the Wiradjuri Nation of central New South Wales. She is a graduate of the University of New South Wales, Western Sydney University. She writes non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women's fiction, children's novels, and blogs. Her books include Tiddas (2014) and Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms (2016), the 2020 University of Canberra Book of the Year. Her most recent book is entitled Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (2021). She has won numerous awards including 2 NSW Premier History Awards, 2002 and 2003; 4 of the Deadly Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Literature for Not Meeting Mr. Right (2007), Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature (2008) with Peter Minter, Manhattan Dreaming (2010), and Paris Dreaming (2011). In 2012, she won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing for Am I Black Enough for You? Her career includes, Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, the GO Foundation and Worawa Aboriginal College. Anita is a board member of University of Queensland Press and Circa Contemporary Circus and is a Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland.

(Bowker Author Biography)