In Week 7 of The Racial State we will be discussing assimilation, multiculturalism against the backdrop of ‘White Australia’ and the ruse of Indigenous ‘inclusion’. I have got the permission of the brilliant Indigenous run t-shirt company Dark and Disturbing to adopt some of their designs…
Austerity and war against multiculturalism
I wrote about sexualised race, austerity, the ‘left’ and Brexit for the Anti-Austerity and Media Activism series on OpenDemocracy. I concluded that It has become a problem to identify that racism has been made play a role in how austerity is framed – as a struggle…
Rest in Power, Jo Cox
The racism of the Brexit campaign set the scene for the murder of Jo Cox. Her brutal killing is continuous with Breivik’s Utoya massacre. Then as now the peddlers of hate, from the those who ‘bravely’ spoke of the failures of multiculturalism, to those inciting hooligans…
Free Speech and Religious Freedom after Charlie Hebdo and Section 18C
On April 7, I was invited to participate in a round table on ‘Free Speech and Religious Freedom after Charlie Hebdo and Section 18C’ at the University of Wollongong by Tanja Dreher and Michael Griffiths on the occasion of Anshuman Mondal‘s visit to the University. Here…
Post-race, Post-Politics: the paradoxical rise of culture after multiculturalism
My latest article has been published ‘Online First’ in Ethnic and Racial Studies. Abstract Declarations of the end of race ignore the continuing impact of racism upon socio-economic inequality in ‘racial states’. Nevertheless, the idea of post-racialism has gained ground in a post-9/11 era, defined by…
If this is ‘freedom of speech’…
The London School of Economics has seen it fit to invite Thilo Sarrazin to a debate tomorrow as part of this year’s ‘German Symposium’. Sarrazin recently made waves with his book, ‘Deutschland schafft sich ab’ (‘Germany does away with itself’), a rant on how Germany is…