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One Plus One: Maxine Beneba Clarke

Posted February 09, 2017 16:42:22

Maxine Beneba Clarke is an author and poet who's been targeted all her life over the colour of her skin. Her award-winning work is inspired both by personal experience, and the desire to start difficult conversations about race.

Jane Hutcheon

Source: One Plus One | Duration: 28min

Topics: arts-and-entertainment, books-literature, autobiography, novel, poetry, performance-art, discrimination, family-and-children, parenting, immigration, multiculturalism, race-relations, education, education, australia, nsw, kellyville-2155, melbourne-3000, guyana, jamaica

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