'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing . . .'
Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is just like all the other Aussie kids on her street.
Except for this one, glaring, inescapably obvious thing.
From one of Australia's most exciting writers, and the author of the multi-award-winning FOREIGN SOIL, comes THE HATE RACE: a powerful, funny, and at times devastating memoir about growing up black in white middle-class Australia.
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An important and confronting book, Beneba Clarke's memoir explores race in modern day Australia. This book swings from well intentioned ignorance to accounts of shocking bitter racism. This memoir is heartbreaking, powerful and a must read for modern Australia. For white Australian's Beneba Clarke presents her experiences of growing up black in white Australia asking those to consider their interactions, assumptions and attitudes toward people of colour. For people of colour in Australia, this book reflects some of the painful, cringe worthy and harrowing experiences of hate, discrimination and fear that are daily struggles. This is a book for fans of Stan Grant's "Talking To My Country". - Lucinda (QBD)
Guest, 12/06/2017
