Against Representation
I reviewed How To Lose Friends and Influence White People, a book being marketed as an antiracist manual, by Media Diversity Australia founder, Antoinette…
Race, the floating signifier
Today we had a good discussion about Stuart Hall’s 1997 lecture, ‘Race, the Floating Signifier’ and the accompanying text reproduced in The Fateful Triangle,…
A word on sociogeny and ‘lived experience’
The work on this course, Understanding Race, is a work in progress. When I began teaching it in 2018 I had the ambition of…
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…
Concepts and Debates 2: Race and the Human
This week in the seminar we will continue to discuss issues of social construction and how to define race by engaging with Stuart Hall’s lecture, Race…
Revisiting Fanon: Lessons for Critical Race & Decolonial Struggles – presentation
Tonight Free University of Western Sydney is hosting a screening of Concerning Violence, the Goran Olsson film which uses archival footage of anticolonial struggles…
Revisiting Fanon: Lessons for Critical Race & Decolonial Struggles
On Thursday May 26 the Free University of Western Sydney will be hosting a special screening of the documentary Concerning Violence by Goran Hugo…