The Murri Book Club and the politics of reading for Indigenous Australians
- Written by Maggie Nolan, Senior lecturer in Humanities, Australian Catholic University
Australian bookclubs are overwhelmingly white, middle-aged, middle-class and female. Shutterstock.com
Although the 2018 Closing the Gap report on Indigenous disadvantage highlighted the importance of literacy for Indigenous Australians, progress remains slow. But, while reading is widely considered an unmitigated good and a marker of prestige, it...
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