Notes

"The celebrated digital magazine e-Tangata is home to some of the most incisive and profound commentary on life in New Zealand. Māori, Pasifika and Pākehā writers grapple with topics that range from politics and social issues to history and popular culture. The best of these are collected together here into this BWB Text by the magazine’s editors, Tapu Misa and Gary Wilson"

Contents
She wouldn’t comply / Nadia Glavish – Transforming education / Linda Tuhiwai Smith – An awakening for a Pākehā / Kennedy Warne – Tangihanga – a dying tradition / Moana Maniapoto – Sad days at Auckland Grammar / Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu – They knew I was naughty / Sima Urale – An upbringing too white by far / Andrew Judd – Ending the shame of not speaking the reo / Nadine Millar – Just because sex is taboo, doesn’t mean we’re not doing it / Laura Toailoa – A voyage round my father / Victor Rodger – Go and find a Pākehā name / Kingi Taurua – Ignorance makes you exploitable / Sefita Hao’uli – On Māori and Pākehā / Joan Metge – You can’t paint the Pacific with just one brush stroke / Teresia Teaiwa – Maybe the Urewera owns itself / Jim Bolger – The only Māori in the room / Māmari Stephens – A winning formula / Gilbert Enoka – Facing the truth about the wars / Moana Jackson – Why we’re reo refugees / Moana Maniapoto