BALANDA – My Year in Arnhem Land, Mary Ellen Jordan

‘Mary Elle Jordan left her Melbourne city life to spend fourteen months in Maningrida, a coastal community in Arnhem Land. She made the journey expecting to work alongside the local Aboriginal people, with good intention and thinking she’s be some use. But nothing, it turned out, would be so simple.

Staring across the sharp social and cultural devide between the two races, Jordan would struggle to learn what it was to be a Balanda in Maningrida-a place that would challenge her perceptions of race, culture, political correctness, art, language, and whiteness.’

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