The hate race : a memoir / Maxine Beneba Clarke.
Publisher: Sydney NSW Hachette Australia, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: x, 259 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780733632280Subject(s): | -- Childhood and youth | Autobiographies | Autobiography | Poets, Australian -- Biography | Writers | Ethnic relations | Australian culture | Beneba Clarke, Maxine | Authors, Australian | Autobiographies | Australian literature | Australia - Social life and customs - 20th century - Autobiography | Australia - Race relations - Autobiography | Racism -- Australia | Multiculturalism -- Australia | Authors, Australian -- Biography | Australia -- Race relations -- 21st century | Australia -- Race relations -- 20th century | AustralianGenre/Form: Autobiographies | Autobiographies | Autobiographies. DDC classification: A821.4 Summary: '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... This is a powerful, funny, and at times devastating memoir about growing up black in white middle-class Australia.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Jessie Street National Women's Library | 928.21 CLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | JSNWL Book Club - May 2017 | 67735 |
'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... This is a powerful, funny, and at times devastating memoir about growing up black in white middle-class Australia.
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