Whiteness and the Ethnographical Power of Popular Culture: a Review of Heroes, Villains and the Muslim Exception
For Krayem, the ‘failure’ of the film and television programs she examines ‘lies not always in an inability to present refreshing new characters on…
Come to the ACRAWSA AGM
All are invited to our Annual General Meeting, ‘What ACRAWSA Do You Want?’, an opportunity to yarn with us about what you’d like to…
Introduction: The ‘Marketplace of ideas’ has only one idea
An introduction to this ACRAWSA Blog Symposium on the ‘Ramsay Centre for Western Civilization’ and the attack on Indigenous and critical race studies in…
What Counts as Expertise? The Marginalisation of Race and Gender Scholarship
The attacks on members of the teaching staff at the University of Sydney by the right-wing tabloid, The Daily Telegraph on 8 August 2018,…
The Hidden and Excess of Anzac Day
When living in a multiracial settler colony, any celebration of war is, to say the least, problematic. Yet, each and every year, every member…
Call for Contributors to the ACRAWSA Blog
Welcome to the brand new blog of the Australian Critical Race & Whiteness Studies Association. This space is designed to give voice to academics,…
Guests in the Master’s House
Following the publication of Australian Continental Philosophy, we sought Bryan Mukandi’s permission to re-post his reflections on the 2017 ASCP conference in Hobart. Our…
Maintaining the Racial Contract by Debbie Bargallie wins the 2019 Stanner Prize
We are very proud that ACRAWSA Secretary Dr Debbie Bargallie’s thesis, Maintaining the racial contract: Everyday racism and the impact of racial microaggressions on “Indigenous…
ACRAWSA Concerns Regarding Victorian Women’s Guild Anti-Transgender event
As the Australian Critical Race & Whiteness Studies association, we are concerned about an event that is being held at the University of Melbourne…
Understanding Race 2019
ACRAWSA President Alana Lentin runs a yearly masters course at Western Sydney University entitled Understanding Race. What is race? What is racism? How are…
The Violence of the Neutral State: The Institutionalisation of Racism in Juvenile Justice
In November 2017, the Youth Justice Coalition[1] (YJC) in NSW, a group of youth advocates, academics and children’s lawyers, released a report detailing the…
First Glimpse … Australia’s Operation Sovereign Borders: Racial Ideologies, Metaphors and Language of Legitimation by Finex Ndhlovu
Australia’s Operation Sovereign Borders: Racial Ideologies, Metaphors and Language of Legitimation by Finex Ndhlovu Border protection policies, notions of belonging, and national sovereignty have…
Race, Space & Architecture: Towards an Open Curriculum
This curriculum was shared with us by Suzi Hall and Huda Tayob from the London School of Economics. This project asks what a curriculum…
Coloniality, Race and Settler Resistance in Occupied Palestine: A conversation with Orly Noy
ACRAWSA is happy to present a conversation with Mizrahi (Iranian-Israeli) activist Orly Noy during her visit to Australia organised by the Australian Jewish Democratic…
First Glimpse … Ghosts of Eugenics’ Past: ‘Childhood’ as a target for whitening race in the United States and Canada by Joanne Faulkner
Ghosts of Eugenics’ Past: ‘Childhood’ as a target for whitening race in the United States and Canada by Joanne Faulkner While in modernity childhood…
First Glimpse … ‘Global Citizenship’: A new manifestation of whiteness by Barbara Heron
‘Global Citizenship’: A new manifestation of whiteness by Barbara Heron In this paper, Heron argues that ‘global citizenship’ represents a new manifestation of whiteness…