Open Access‘I don’t like your kind of people’: Cultural Pluralism in Odo Hirsch’s Have Courage, Hazel Green
Author(s) -
Beverley Pennell
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
papers (victoria park)/papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1837-4530
pISSN - 1034-9243
DOI - 10.21153/pecl2007vol17no2art1195
Subject(s) - courage , multiculturalism , ideology , pluralism (philosophy) , sociology , identity (music) , context (archaeology) , aesthetics , environmental ethics , media studies , art , political science , epistemology , history , philosophy , law , archaeology , pedagogy , politics
The three ways that 'Have Courage, Hazel Green' narrativises the operation and effects of racist values in the Moodey Building's community, is focused. This opens up the possibility that where Australian texts take a multicultural context for granted they may only be representing a cosmetic change to Australian identity and thus continue to be ideologically superficial.