Week 1: Race & Power
Interactive presentation Tutorial activity: Conversations about race bingo I updated my introductory lecture to The Racial State. I welcome you to share the slides…
La guerre contre la Critical Race Theory en Australie passe à côté de l’essentiel
I was invited by the Revue Movements to contribute a reflection on the so-called war in critical race theory and how it plays out…
Week 3: The Coloniality of Power
This week’s focus is the Coloniality of Power. I begin by establishing what is at stake using Russia’s current war on Ukraine as an…
Week 2: Why Everything Costs Money
This week is a ramble through some basic idea about capitalism, how it works and what it means for us. I found a lot…
Challenging Antisemitism as Part of the Wider Struggle for Racial Justice
I was invited by Donna Nevel to participate in a panel organised by Jewish Voice for Peace, South Florida among some really great speakers,…
A Process, not an ontology; a structure, not an event: Race, coloniality and property
‘Race, it cannot be stressed strongly enough, is a process, not an ontology, its varying modalities so many dialectical symptoms of the ever-shifting hegemonic…
Race & Culture
The link between race and culture, or rather the racialization of culture, and the political manipulation of this situation is central to our understanding…
By Rejecting the Uluru Statement, Australia Recommits to Colonial Rule
I was invited to comment on the Australian government’s rejection of the Uluru Statement of the Heart by the ABC Religion and Ethics website.…
With our narrow interpretation of racism it’s too easy to deny that we are racist
I teach undergraduates at Western Sydney University, several hundreds of whom have, over the last five years, studied my unit, “The Racial State”. I…
On relationality in race research
This is the third contribution to the Race Critical and Decolonial Sociology blog series. In it I look at the argument advanced by David…