{"product_id":"the-australian-dream-blood-history-and-becoming","title":"The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a landmark essay, Stan Grant writes Indigenous people back into the economic and multicultural history of Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the fascinating story of how fringe dwellers fought not just to survive, but to prosper. Their legacy is the extraordinary flowering of Indigenous success - cultural, sporting, intellectual and social - that we see today. Yet this flourishing co-exists with the boys of Don Dale, and the many others like them who live in the shadows of the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrant examines how such Australians have been denied the possibilities of life, and argues eloquently that history is not destiny; that culture is not static. In doing so, he makes the case for a more capacious Australian Dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The idea that I am Australian hits me with a thud. It is a blinding self-realisation that collides with the comfortable notion of who I am. To be honest, for an Indigenous person, it can feel like a betrayal somehow - at the very least, a capitulation. We are so used to telling ourselves that Australia is a white country: am I now white? The reality is more ambiguous ... To borrow from Franz Kafka, identity is a cage in search of a bird.' --Stan Grant, The Australian Dream\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stan Grant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43470747041961,"sku":"9781863958899","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781863958899.jpg?v=1702434016","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/the-australian-dream-blood-history-and-becoming","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}