Coronavirus is the ultimate demonstration of the real-world impact of racism
I have published an article in The Guardian in which I discuss the ways in which the media’s treatment of racism as a topic…
Mark Knight’s racist cartoon & the lack of racial literacy in Australia
I was asked to write an article for The Guardian about the horrendous racist cartoon of Serena Williams drawn by Australian cartoonist Mark Knight.…
With our narrow interpretation of racism it’s too easy to deny that we are racist
I teach undergraduates at Western Sydney University, several hundreds of whom have, over the last five years, studied my unit, “The Racial State”. I…
Should Pussy Riot Boycott the Festival of Dangerous Ideas?
A Head-to-head published in The Guardian on 29 August 2014. On 11 August an anonymous group published an open letter to two ex-members of…
‘Bolt laws’: should it be unlawful to insult people because of their race?
I’m a bit late updating the site with this article from last week in which I argued, against Antony Loewenstein, that Section 18C of…
Racism is still very much with us. So why don’t we recognise it?
The latest article, by Gavan Titley and myself, part of the Guardian’s series on Racism in a Digital Age which includes articles by Gary…
Bus Attacks: what lies behind those racist rants?