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…
For Week 6 of The Racial State we are going to subvert the idea that there is a debate to be had about ‘Australia Day’, known more correctly as Invasion Day. We are going to be engaging with Professor Irene Watson’s short text, ‘Why celebrate on…
For Week 5 of The Racial State we are going to be working with a short version of Patricia Hill Collins’ text, Chapter 4 of Black Feminist Thought: ‘Mammies, Matriarchs and other Controlling Images’ from Blackfeminisms.com. We will watch the short video, ‘Mammy, Jezebel and Sapphire’…
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 will actually end up producing! However, as a conversation started for Week 1 of The Racial State, I have produced a TiTok…
Week 3 of The Racial State is on Whiteness, White Possession and White Supremacy. The philosopher of race, Helen Ngo has written a very good article discussing the potential problems with the concept of white privilege, ‘On white privilege, white priority and white supremacy’. I have…
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…
In the age of Black Lives Matter, we have become accustomed to hearing concepts like ‘institutional’ and ‘systemic racism’ openly discussed. On one side, there are calls to recognise the extent to which race shapes experience, access and opportunity even in so-called ‘successful multicultural’ societies like…
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…
I was delighted to have been interviewed for the Thursday Breakfast show on 3CR Community radio out of Naarm (Melbourne). Em Castle asked some really great questions. Topics included the unit I am teaching this semester, antiracist education and ACRAWSA’s letter of objection to the Australian…
The exhibition of a selection of student posters from my unit, The racial State (Autumn semester 2013) is currently on at the Margot Hardy Gallery, Bankstown Campus, Building 23, University of Western Sydney.