I recently had a wonderful trip to Europe after not leaving ‘Australia’ for two and a half years. During the protracted covid-induced border closures I brought out my last book Why Race Still Matters. This gave me the opportunity to connect with a lot of wonderful…
People who know me know I love podcasts and one of those I love and listen to every episode of is The Malcolm Effect with Momodu Taal, who is a brilliant young thinker. Therefore, I was so honoured to have been invited to speak to him…
Lecture given to the ICS Key Thinkers and Concepts Series. I have included both the recording of the lecture on Zoom (which is in two parts) and the text and slides below that. The text and accompanying slides of the lecture follow: Universities are built on…
In preparing for this new year of Understanding Race, the Masters of Research class I teach at Western Sydney University, I have been thinking about the call to speak more about race in settler colonial ‘Australia’. As I have written, there is an elision of race…
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…
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…
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…
Dr Debbie Bargallie and I have published an article in the journal, Current Sociology in which we discuss the uses of critical race and critical Indigenous approaches to the theorisation of race, antiracism, and Indigenous sovereignty in colonial Australia. The article is titled, Beyond convergence and…
The Masters of Research course I run at Western Sydney University is back, beginning on July 23. As usual if you want to come along (face-to-face only) or are along with us, you are welcome. Usually, the course has a special theme. In 2019 that was…
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…