The Radical Antiracism Today seminar series hosted by Culture & Society at Western Sydney University invites you to celebrate the publication of Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies: Breaking the Silence, edited by Debbie Bargallie and Nilmini Fernando and published in the Decolonizaton & Social Worlds series at Bristol University Press. REGISTER HERE The…
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Debbie Bargallie and I have produced a guide to racial literacy, ‘Key Concepts and Definitions for Building Racial Literacy.‘ This guide contains 28 definitions and 5 longer explainers of key concepts about race, racism, antiracism, colonialism, and anticolonialism. While the guide was produced with the australian context in mind, it…
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A new article by Debbie Bargallie, Nilmini Fernando and me has been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies based in research conducted with educators trying to work amid the silencing o trace in the Australian racial-colony and to enhance racial literacy. Abstract: Race structures the lives of Indigenous peoples and…
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On April 19, we held the first in the Radical Antiracism Today seminar series with Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley, in conversation with Debbie Bargallie on their book Fractured: Race, Class and Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics. I am delighted to share the recording with you. (I apologise…
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The Culture and Society discipline at my university, Western Sydney University is hosting an online seminar series, Radical Antiracism Today: New books in abolitionist, anticolonial, internationalist antiracism. The series is supported by the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and the Institute for Culture and Society. I am coordinating this…
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I was waiting for a sandwich on Tuesday afternoon and idling on Twitter when I read Falguni Sheth‘s tweet announcing that Distinguished Professor Charles Wade Mills had died. I expleted loudly in shock and had to apologise to the person working behind the counter! Charles W. Mills’ work has become…
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You are welcome to join is for an event as part of Social Sciences Week on September 10 at 10 am organised by the Institute for Culture and Society Borders and Diversity Research Group Registration link A 2021 Social Sciences Week event from the Borders and Diversity Research Program of…
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Debbie Bargallie and I wrote about the Australian right’s attack on Critical Race Theory as a signalled by Liberal senator and Assistant Attorney General, Amanda Stoker’s pressure on the Australian Human Rights’s Commission to drop a recent tender after it invoked ‘anti racism’ which she said comes from Critical Race…
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On 1 December 2020 on 7pm, I am delighted to be launching my book, Why Race Still Matters along with Gavan Titley‘s Is Free Speech Racist? at Sydney’s Gleebooks (online) in the company of Dr Debbie Bargallie, author of Unmasking the Racial Contract, and Angela Saini, author of Superior: The…
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Debbie Bargallie and myself wrote an article for Croakey magazine on the need for racial literacy in Australian schools. Against the backdrop of a relentless pandemic and Black protest around the Global North, racial literacy is urgent. Bestseller lists and bookshop display tables are stacked high with volumes promising answers…
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I am delighted to be working with Dr Zuleyka Zevallos on a new project – a web series of conversations about race and racism in Australia from a sociological perspective. Our first season deals with the theme of ‘Race and Covid’ can can be found on our YouTube channel. The…
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