For Week 6 of The Racial State we are going to subvert the idea that there is a debate to be had about ‘Australia Day’, known more correctly as Invasion Day. We are going to be engaging with Professor Irene Watson’s short text, ‘Why celebrate on…
Controlling Images exercise
For Week 5 of The Racial State we are going to be working with a short version of Patricia Hill Collins’ text, Chapter 4 of Black Feminist Thought: ‘Mammies, Matriarchs and other Controlling Images’ from Blackfeminisms.com. We will watch the short video, ‘Mammy, Jezebel and Sapphire’…
Is Racism a Pandemic?
I’ve tried to use TikTok. It is full-on the hardest thing ever to get right, so I am not sure how many videos I will actually end up producing! However, as a conversation started for Week 1 of The Racial State, I have produced a TiTok…
Concepts for discussing whiteness
Week 3 of The Racial State is on Whiteness, White Possession and White Supremacy. The philosopher of race, Helen Ngo has written a very good article discussing the potential problems with the concept of white privilege, ‘On white privilege, white priority and white supremacy’. I have…
Conversations About Race Bingo
In Week 2 of The Racial State, we discuss how race and racism are constructed, how racialisation operates and what effect race and racism have on everyday lives. Part of what those affected by racism have to navigate and cope with are the endless opinions about…
Power Plagiarism
One of my many jobs is supervising maths homework. At the top of each exercise sheet is the command to ‘Show all working out’. I was thinking about this when reflecting about the common failure within academia to show the traces of our work, the lines…
Open Letter against Racism
Thanks to the 500+ people who signed the Open Letter coordinated and written By Andrew Brooks (with some inout form me). The letter calls out the Australian Senate’s rejection of critical race theory. It was published in Overland Magazine. The signatories of this letter oppose the…
Decolonial Thought: A lecture for the Institute for Culture and Society Key Thinkers & Concepts series
I was kindly invited by the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University to give a talk on postcolonial and decolonial thought for its Key Thinkers & Concepts series. I have posted in the slides and notes here. 1. I wish to acknowledgement the Darug people,…
An anti-racism in Europe?
To mark the 25th anniversary of the Council of Europe’s European youth Campaign against racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance “All Different-All Equal”, Gavan Titley has edited a series of essays including one of mine in which I reflect on my role as co-coordinator with Yael Ohana…
Talking CRT Moral Panics on Radio 3CR
I was invited to talk on the Radio 3CR Thursday Breakfast Show by Priya Kunjan on June 24. You can listen here to what I had to say about what Critical Race Theory is and is not, why those attacking it have no idea, and neither…