Stolen Man on Stolen Land

When Tyree Barnette moved to Sydney from North Carolina, he knew little of his new home. On first arriving, he was pleasantly surprised: the police treated him with respect and Black American culture seemed to be widely admired and celebrated.<BR><BR>But in time, Tyree saw the darker side to Australia's relationship with African American culture a relationship that often tipped from admiration into fetishisation. The undercurrents of racism in Australia came into view, as did the ongoing struggles of Indigenous Australians against injustice.<BR><BR>As the USA shifted its place on the global stage through the rise of Trump, the Black Lives Matter Movement and a new era of political polarisation, Tyree watched from a distance and learned the unique joy and pain of migration. Balancing the insistent tug of home with the possibility of a new life, he explores this experience with nuance, self-awareness and kindness.<BR><BR>This is the perspective that has been missing from the race discussion in Australia, one that considers how privilege and race can shift across time and borders<I>. Stolen Man on Stolen Land</I> is both a love letter to Australian multiculturalism and a clear-eyed exploration of its successes and its failings.