Leave your Big Boots at the Door

Pakeha confronting racism against Maori

Author: Lorraine McLeod

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In this book, Leave Your Big Boots at the Door, by Lorraine McLeod, seventeen Pakeha discuss the history of racism against Maori in Aotearoa, and their work to eliminate it. This is an important and inspiring book, one that encourages Pakeha to face up to our past and embrace an optimistic future for Aotearoa.

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9 7 8 1 988 5506 4 0$39.99230 x 152 mm, approx. 150 pp, B/W photosPaperbackISBN: 978 1 98 855064 0Published: September 2024Stories of Pākehā working to eliminate racism against Māori in Aotearoa.In this book seventeen Pākehā discuss the history of racism against Māori in Aotearoa, and explain what theyhave 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 inthe inequitable, disadvantaged margins of society, heavily influenced by the loss of their land and culturalknowledge, and often living in poverty. The Pākehā interviewed in this book have all come to recognise howthis racism blights our country. 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 angleon the subject, they offer positive suggestions about addressing bias, power and privilege in our country’sconstitutional documents, systemic racism in our institutions and organisations, and in personal ways ofconfronting 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 anoptimistic future for Aotearoa

About the Author

Dr. Lorraine McLeod҆s career in education spannedalmost 50 years, first as a primary school teacher, thenin early childhood education and as a principal lecturerat AIT (now Auckland University of Technology). Her nextposition was as Associate Dean, Early Childhood TeacherEducation at Auckland College of Education (now AucklandUniversity). After a brief spell at the then -Teachers Counciland the Ministry of Education, she was employed asan Assistant Professor of Education at the United ArabEmirates University near Dubai. Now retired, she has theadvantage of time to consider important issues – likeracism in her own country.