On Identity

Stan Grant
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On Identity

Published

7 May 2019

ISBN

9780522875539

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Melbourne University Press

On Identity

Stan Grant
Bestselling author Stan Grant explores how identity is being hijacked to incite hate.
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.
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.

Grant openly wrestles with aspects of his identity; both how he is known and understood in contemporary Australian society and what this identity might mean for him personally as both descendant and progenitor of ‘‘mixed’’ families.”
Sarah Maddison, The Saturday Age

Stan Grant has a bone to pick with many commonly accepted ideas about identity. Lucky us. The books he’s read, the life he’s lived all feed his rigorous and generous argument”
Peter Carey

Stan Grant

Stan Grant

Stan Grant is a Wiradjuri man. He has worked for the ABC, SBS, CNN, the Seven Network and SKY News. Grant published the bestselling Talking to My Country (2015) and won a Walkley award for his coverage of indigenous affairs. In 2016 he was appointed to the Referendum Council for Indigenous recognition.

Author image courtesy of Kathy Luu

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