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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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 over zoom and…
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Everyone knows how much I love the Surviving Society podcast with Chantelle Lewis and Tissot Regis, produced by George Ofori-Addo. So I was absolutely delighted to be invited back to talk about my feelings about my book more or less 1 year after its publication, a year of crisis and…
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I was invited to talk on the Radio 3CR Thursday Breakfast Show by Priya Kunjan on June 24. You can listen here to what I had to say about what Critical Race Theory is and is not, why those attacking it have no idea, and neither do they care, what…
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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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A short blog post I wrote for the Polity Books website about my new book Why Race Still Matters. The dominant approach to race after the Holocaust, particularly for most of the European states that positioned themselves as anti-fascist, has been to treat it as a taboo topic. However, brushing…
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I was asked to write an article for The Guardian about the horrendous racist cartoon of Serena Williams drawn by Australian cartoonist Mark Knight. Unfortunately, the headline used the word ‘ignorance’ which led some people to rightly point out that the problems of racism in Australia, or elsewhere, has nothing…
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