On Identity
- Authors
- Stan Grant
- Publisher
- Melbourne University Publishing
- Tags
- essays , cultural , australian , indigenous , history , politics , non-fiction
- Date
- 2019-05-18T14:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.16 MB
- Lang
- en
Bestselling author Stan Grant explores how identity is being hijacked to incite hate, askingasks 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 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