Growing up Aboriginal in Australia / edited by Anita Heiss.

Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information).

Themes: Aboriginality, identity, kinship, culture, country, Australian history, racism -- publisher's web site.

Teaching notes by Dr Marnee Shay available from publisher's web site: https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/sites/default/files/Growing%20Up%20Aboriginal_Teaching%20Notes.pdf.

Introduction / Anita Heiss -- Two tiddas / Susie and Alice Anderson -- Finding ways home / Evlyn Araluen -- It's not over / Bebe Backhouse -- My story / Alicia Bates -- Dear Australia / Don Bemrose -- My father has a story / Tony Birch -- Murri + Migloo = Meeks Mob / Norleen Brinkworth -- Easter, 1969 / Katie Bryan -- So much still pending / Deborah Cheetham -- 'This is Nat, she's Abo' / Natalie Cromb -- Thanks for the childhood travels / Karen Davis -- Growing up beige / Ian Dudley -- Yuya Karraburra / Alice Eather -- White bread dreaming / Shannon Foster -- There are no halves / Jason Goninan -- The sporting life / Adam Goodes -- A Tasmanian Toomelah tiger / Jodi Haines -- I remember / John Hartley -- The streets of my youth / Terri Janke -- What it's like / Keira Jenkins -- My life's voyage / Patrick Johnson -- Red dust kids / Scott Kennedy -- December 21 / Sharon Kingaby -- Growing up, grow up, grown-ups / Ambelin Kwaymullina -- Far enough away to be on my way back home / Jack Latimore -- Black bum / Celeste Liddle -- Recognised / Mathew Lyllyst -- Just a young girl / Taryn Little -- Stranger danger / Amy McQuire -- Grey / Melanie Mununggurr-Williams -- Different times / Doreen Nelson -- When did you first realise you were Aboriginal? / Sharon Payne -- 'Abo Nose' / Zachary Penrith-Puchalski -- Too white to be black, too black to be white . . . / Carol Pettersen -- Living between two knowledge systems / Todd Phillips -- The little town on the railway track / Kerry Reed-Gilbert -- A story from my life / William Russell -- Cronulla to Papuny / Marlee Silva -- Letterbox-gate / Liza-Mare Syron -- From Marree to the city / Frank Szekely -- Nobody puts Baby Spice in a corner / Miranda Tapsell -- Daredevil days / Jared Thomas -- Finding my belonging / Ceane G. Towers -- My childhood / Aileen Walsh -- Life lessons, or something like them / Shahni Wellington -- It's too hot / Alexis West -- Aboriginemo / Alison Whittaker -- Split affinity / John Williams-Mozley -- First, second, third, fourth / Tara June Winch -- The Aboriginal equation / Tamika Worrell -- Notes on Contributors.

What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, attempts to showcase as many diverse voices, experiences and stories as possible in order to answer that question. Each account reveals, to some degree, the impacts of invasion and colonisation – on language, on country, on ways of life, and on how people are treated daily in the community, the education system, the workplace and friendship groups.Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile identities sit alongside newly discovered voices of all ages, with experiences spanning coastal and desert regions, cities and remote communities. All of them speak to the heart – sometimes calling for empathy, oftentimes challenging stereotypes, always demanding respect.This groundbreaking anthology aims to enlighten, inspire and educate about the lives of Aboriginal people in Australia today.Contributors include: Tony Birch, Deborah Cheetham, Adam Goodes, Terri Janke, Patrick Johnson, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Jack Latimore, Celeste Liddle, Amy McQuire, Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Miranda Tapsell, Jared Thomas, Aileen Walsh, Alexis West, Tara June Winch, and many, many more.

Year levels: 9-12 Black Inc.

In English.

Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year, ABIA Awards 2019.