Living Black

by Kevin Gilbert

This book deals exclusively with Australia and

Genres: Australia, Nonfiction, Race

Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

Reviews

[Kristine · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting survey of thoughts and issues from a diverse range of indigenous people from across Australia gathered in conversations in the 1970's. It was depressing to realise that many of those issues remain today in the 2020's and how little progress there had been in the last 50 years. It also gave me hope that there has been real progress on some issues and that a new generation have begun to build on this work. I liked the diversity of voices and backgrounds of the people interviewed. I didn't like way the conversations were presented, as a reproduction of dialogue or interviews. I found it very difficult to read when sentences, thoughts and conversations wandered all over the place and weren't always coherent or comprehensible to a reader. Overall it is an important book and a very good survey of that era, but it required persistence to get through it and absorb some of the themes and messages.

[Ian Muil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Important issues but repetitive and hard to plough through