TY - BOOK AU - Clarke,Maxine TI - The hate race: a memoir SN - 9780733632280 U1 - A821.4 PY - 2016/// CY - Sydney NSW PB - Hachette Australia KW - 1 KW - Autobiographies KW - Autobiography KW - Poets, Australian KW - Biography KW - Writers KW - Ethnic relations KW - Australian culture KW - Beneba Clarke, Maxine KW - Authors, Australian KW - Australian literature KW - Australia - Social life and customs - 20th century - Autobiography KW - Australia - Race relations - Autobiography KW - Racism KW - Australia KW - Multiculturalism KW - Race relations KW - 21st century KW - 20th century KW - Australian N2 - '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 ER -