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A review by leemac027
Racism: Stories on Fear, Hate & Bigotry by Winnie Dunn, Phoebe Grainer, Stephen Pham
4.0
This is such an important book dealing with a subject that the majority in Australia want to believe does not exist - racism.
This anthology was collated by Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement and features works from authors across the cultural spectrum highlighting the direct, aggressive, and subtle micro-aggressive racism that is their every day experience in Australia.
This book should be on every school curriculum, in every place of work and in every home - and it should be read from cover to cover.
It is best summed up by one of the contributors, Sarah Ayoub who wrote: "In offering Indigenous writers and writers of colour a space to share their stories, this book is a step towards transformation. These stories are no longer chips on our shoulders or scars on our skin or evidence of the storms we have weathered for daring to deviate from the norm. These stories are weapons in literature's shift towards change. They are no longer committed to memory but to print: re-writing our past, challenging our present, and remedying our future."
This anthology was collated by Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement and features works from authors across the cultural spectrum highlighting the direct, aggressive, and subtle micro-aggressive racism that is their every day experience in Australia.
This book should be on every school curriculum, in every place of work and in every home - and it should be read from cover to cover.
It is best summed up by one of the contributors, Sarah Ayoub who wrote: "In offering Indigenous writers and writers of colour a space to share their stories, this book is a step towards transformation. These stories are no longer chips on our shoulders or scars on our skin or evidence of the storms we have weathered for daring to deviate from the norm. These stories are weapons in literature's shift towards change. They are no longer committed to memory but to print: re-writing our past, challenging our present, and remedying our future."