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Leave your Big Boots at the Door
Pakeha confronting racism against Maori
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Leave your Big Boots at the Door Stories of Pākehā working to eliminate racism against Māori in Aotearoa. In this book, seventeen Pākehā discuss the history of racism against Māori in Aotearoa and explain what they have done, and are still doing, to prevent it. The...
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In this book, Leave Your Big Boots at the Door, by Lorraine McLeod, seventeen Pakeha discuss the history of racism against Maori in Aotearoa, and their work to eliminate it. This is an important and inspiring book, one that encourages Pakeha to face up to our past and embrace an optimistic future for Aotearoa.
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Leave your Big Boots at the Door
Stories of Pākehā working to eliminate racism against Māori in Aotearoa.
In this book, seventeen Pākehā discuss the history of racism against Māori in Aotearoa and explain what they have done, and are still doing, to prevent it.
The effects of colonisation and the racism that accompanies it are seen in the lives of many Māori living in the inequitable, disadvantaged margins of society, heavily influenced by the loss of their land and cultural knowledge, and often living in poverty. The Pākehā interviewed in this book have all come to recognise how this racism blights our country.
They come from a range of occupations, including police, education, health, psychology, social services, Corrections, business, and the law. As well as each providing an historical angle on the subject, they offer positive suggestions about addressing bias, power and privilege in our country’s constitutional documents, systemic racism in our institutions and organisations, and in personal ways of confronting racism. All advocate for a society in which Māori regain tino rangatiratanga (power and control) over their own lives.
This is an important and inspiring book, one that encourages Pākehā to face up to our past and embrace an optimistic future for Aotearoa.
ISBN: 978 1 98 855064 0
Paperback
230 x 152 mm, approx. 150 pp, B/W photos
Published: September 2024
Price: $39.99
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781988550640
Publisher: Potton & Burton
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 October 2024
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Potton & Burton
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 230.0mm
Weight: 320g
Pages: 150
About the Author
Dr. Lorraine McLeod҆s career in education spanned almost 50 years, first as a primary school teacher, then in early childhood education and as a principal lecturer at AIT (now Auckland University of Technology). Her next position was as Associate Dean, Early Childhood Teacher Education at Auckland College of Education (now Auckland University). After a brief spell at the then -Teachers Council and the Ministry of Education, she was employed as an Assistant Professor of Education at the United Arab Emirates University near Dubai. Now retired, she has the advantage of time to consider important issues – like racism in her own country.
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