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Leave Your Big Boots at the Door

Pākehā confronting racism against Māori

Lorraine McLeod

In this book, Leave Your Big Boots at the Door by Lorraine McLeod, seventeen Pākehā discuss the history of racism against Māori in Aotearoa, and their work to eliminate it. They come from a range of occupations, including police, education, health, psychology, social services, Corrections, business, and the law. This is an important and inspiring book, one that encourages Pākehā to face up to our past and embrace an optimistic future for Aotearoa.

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In the book, Leave Your Big Boots at the Door, 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, and 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.

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Additional information

Weight .52 kg
ISBN

9781988550640

Pages

150

Size

230 x 152 mm

Format

Paperback

Published

October 2024

Author

Lorraine McLeod

View interview with Lorraine on Te Ao Māori News

Read review on the Kete website

Read extract in Sunday Star Times

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