What Will it Take?
Andrea Durbach
This powerful, insightful and timely collection of essays is driven by a quest to understand humanity’s persistent need to fear, humiliate and conquer the ‘other’. As a political trial lawyer and human rights advocate who grew up in apartheidera South Africa, has lived in Australia, and spent time in Israel and Palestine, Andrea Durbach is acutely aware of how racism operates in its overt and underhand ways, how easily racist practice becomes the norm, and how obstinate it is when challenged.
What Will It Take? is an urgent investigation into systemic racism from someone who has studied its origins, understood its language, and tried to tackle its savage course. It’s also an attempt to find a way to reimagine and resurrect the values and convictions that ultimately toppled pernicious regimes in Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa. As Palestinian poet and author, Mahmoud Darwish, wrote in his poem Under Siege, to ‘cultivate hope’ against the backdrop of the ‘gardens of broken shadows’.
- Release
- Aug-2027
- ISBN
- 9781761170799
- RRP (AUD)
- $34.99
- Pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback & ebook
Andrea Durbach is an Emeritus Professor at UNSW’s Faculty of Law & Justice where she was Director of the Australian Human Rights Centre.
NewSouth Publishing
NewSouth Publishing is the publishing division of UNSW Press Ltd, a leading Australian university press.
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