In the book, Leave Your Big Boots at the Door, seventeen Pakeha discuss the history of racism against Maori in Aotearoa, and explain what they have 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 Maori living in the inequitable, disadvantaged margins of society, heavily influenced by the loss of their land and cultural knowledge, and often living in poverty.