Thinking about Police Violence

Mariame Kaba has some amazing resources on her blog, Prison Culture including the #FergusonSyllabus: Talking and Teaching about police violence. I have adapted one…

Institutional Racism Scenarios

I first developed this exercise when I was invited by Professor Lilon Bandler to speak to er medical students at Sydney University! Here I…
Invasion day graffiti

Invasion Day exercise

For Week 6 of The Racial State we are going to subvert the idea that there is a debate to be had about ‘Australia…
Black Feminist Thought book cover

Controlling Images exercise

For Week 5 of The Racial State we are going to be working with a short version of Patricia Hill Collins’ text, Chapter 4…
A Black man in a wheelchair holds a sign that reads Disabled Black Lives Matter

Is Racism a Pandemic?

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…

Conversations About Race Bingo

In Week 2 of The Racial State, we discuss how race and racism are constructed, how racialisation operates and what effect race and racism…

Short notes: racial naturalism and racial historicism

David Goldberg (2002) distinguishes between naturalist and historicist racism. The distinction helps us to more clearly see how racism becomes politically articulated within the context…

The Racial State Poster Exhibition

The exhibition of a selection of student posters from my unit, The racial State (Autumn semester 2013) is currently on at the Margot Hardy…
Alana Lentin