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Cry of the Unwanted "Living in Austria"

by Arthur Egbuniwe & Ayodele-Mike Uzama

219 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-0775; ISBN 1-4120-0406-3; US$23.00, C$26.00, EUR19.00, £13.00

LIFE IN A RACIST SOCIETY

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About the Book Life in present day Austria (A Short History of Africans in Austria).

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About the Author Ayodele Mike Uzama is a Nigerian, he is computer technician and a freelance writer. Happily married to Natascha and both live in Graz, Austria. Arthur Egbuniwe was born in Onitsha Nigeria. Studied Banking and Finance at Anambra State polytechnic Oko town. Has been living in Austria since 1995 and his married to Monika and they have two children. Noel and Afoma.

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Richard Parncutt

I was born in 1957 in Melbourne, Australia. I attended Melbourne University, where I studied music and science. I moved to Armidale NSW in 1981 to do a PhD at the University of New England in the area of music psychology (awarded in 1987). After that, I was involved in music-psychological research projects in various countries (Germany, Sweden, Canada, England). Since 1998, I have held a professorship in "Systematic Musicology" at the University of Graz, where I also coordinate the Universitäre Initiativen gegen Fremdenfeindlichkeit. Our aim is to get universities more directly and effectively involved in the struggle against racism and xenophobia.

Readers of this book who are members of an Austrian university - whether as students, researchers, or administrative or academic staff members -and who would like to see Austrian universities take more responsibility for public education on racism, are asked to get in contact with me on parncutt@unigraz.at. A lobby is essential - quiet agreement is not enough!

Confessions of a white foreigner

Before I start sounding off about European and Austrian racism, let me clarify my own racist background. I was brought up in white, middle-class Australia, a world that was astonishingly ignorant of its own racism. During my childhood, I heard barely a whisper about the atrocities that had been committed against the Aboriginal inhabitants of my country. Everyone knew that the land on which they were standing (the Melbourne suburbs in which I grew up) had been inhabited for a very long time before the arrival of Europeans. But no one talked about it. No one seemed even curious - or if they were, they somehow subconsciously realised that it would not be a good idea to talk too much about that curiosity. It just wasn't done. Those white Australians who were interested in Australian history were mainly interested in those many pioneering, pale-faced personalities who had made it possible for us to enjoy our high standard of living, all in the context of the rise and fall of the British Empire. It was as if the shadowy figures of our prehistory had never existed -at least, not as human beings of the kind that one takes seriously.

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