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In this fine, exceptionally honest but disturbing memoir Maxine Beneba Clarke achieves exactly what she set out to do "... to show the extreme toll that casual, overt and institionalised racism can take: the way it erodes us all". p 257
The examples of racism described by Maxine which so destabilised her young life occurred in suburban Sydney in the 1980s and 1990s; I would like to think that things have changed for the better in the intervening years but I'm not so sure.
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The examples of racism described by Maxine which so destabilised her young life occurred in suburban Sydney in the 1980s and 1990s; I would like to think that things have changed for the better in the intervening years but I'm not so sure.
Recommended. ...more
May 01, 2017
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marked it as to-read
