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    On Identity
    On Identity
    On Identity
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    On Identity

    By Stan Grant

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    Stan Grant asks why when it comes to identity he is asked to choose between black and white. Is identity a myth? A constructed story we tell ourselves? Tribalism, nationalism and sectarianism are dividing the world into us and them. Communities are a tinderbox of anger and resentment. He passionately hopes we are not hard wired for hate. Grant argues that it is time to leave identity behind and to embrace cosmopolitanism. On Identity is a meditation on hope and community.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMelbourne University Publishing Ltd
    Release dateMay 7, 2019
    ISBN9780522875539
    On Identity
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    Stan Grant

    Stan Grant is the ABC’s international affairs analyst, and vice-chancellor’s chair of Australian-Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University. He won the 2015 Walkley Award for coverage of Indigenous affairs and is the author of On Thomas Keneally, The Australian Dream, Australia Day, The Tears of Strangers and Talking to My Country.

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      Interesting book on understanding/giving self identity, and perspective on identity, how it is tied to politics and self.

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    On Identity - Stan Grant

    Stan Grant is a self-identified Indigenous Australian who counts himself among the Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi, Dharrawal and Irish. His identities embrace all and exclude none. He is a multi-award-winning journalist and foreign correspondent who has covered the world’s biggest stories of the past three decades. He has worked for the ABC, SBS, CNN, Seven Network and SKY News. Grant published the bestselling Talking to My Country (2016), which won the Walkley Book Award, and he also won a Walkley award for his coverage of Indigenous affairs. In 2016 he was appointed to the Referendum Council for Indigenous Recognition.

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    On Identity

    MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS

    An imprint of Melbourne University Publishing Limited

    Level 1, 715 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia

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    First published 2019

    Text © Stan Grant, 2019

    Design and typography © Melbourne University Publishing Limited, 2019

    This book is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 and subsequent amendments, no part may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means or process whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publishers.

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    Cover design by Nada Backovic

    Typesetting by TypeSkill

    Author photograph by Kathy Luu

    Printed in Australia by McPherson’s Printing Group

    9780522875522 (paperback)

    9780522875539 (ebook)

    There are women behind me and I can hear them talking.

    ‘I’m sure I’m related to him,’ one says.

    ‘Yes,’ replies the other, ‘through your grandmother—that was his grandfather’s sister.’

    It’s me they’re talking about. I have come here to a place where my father and grandfather were born, a place that I could call ‘my country’—a physical space and a state of mind. It is a place far older than what we call Australia, so old that my kinship doesn’t run in a straight line but moves in ever-widening circles. I am here to talk about identity—what it is to belong. And it starts with family.

    When I turn around they smile and, even though I have never met them, I see faces I have known all my life.

    ‘I’m your Great Aunty Em’s granddaughter,’ one says.

    The other is the granddaughter of my Great Aunty Liz. Elizabeth Knight and Emma Merritt were both my grandfather’s sisters.

    These women are doing what people I call my own always do, something that is hardwired in us: mapping our family, connecting me to them. Put two or more of us together and it is the first question asked: Where are you from, who are your people? It is genealogy, but it is more than that. It is survival.

    We all do this in our own way—people everywhere. It is the family crest, the clan’s tartan, a sepia-tinged photograph, a convict ship’s manifest, a long-dead soldier’s pocket book, the tattooed wrists of the death camps—tangible proof,

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