A review by haklh
Am I Black Enough For You? by Anita Heiss

4.0

We need more people like Anita Heiss - smart, funny, highly articulate, forthright - across all different cultural and ethnic backgrounds - to keep reminding us to think about white privilege and other more hidden forms of racism, that may have become internalised as part of "normal culture". I found this book highly entertaining, thought-provoking and educational. Despite Anita Heiss not wishing to be a one-woman cultural awareness workshop, her thoughts about her work and her life as an educated, urban Aboriginal woman did offer a lot of insight into what "being Aboriginal" means in contemporary Australia. For me, one of the most interesting parts of this book is her thoughts on identifying as Aboriginal - her father is Caucasian (Austrian) but she identifies 100% as Aboriginal. It almost seems a compulsion / spiritual necessity for her; reading this made me also question my own cultural identity, since I also live in-between cultures.