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…
The Ramsay Insult
If one wishes to engage with Indigenous and other non-western knowledges in research, writing, and teaching, certainly in Australia, then one needs to divest…
‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ Navigating anti-racism, academia and advocacy as a person of colour today
Anti-racism is often dismissed as political correctness or identity politics. To speak out and act against racism is to attract accusations of ‘playing the…
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…
What ACRAWSA Do You Want?
ACRAWSA members and friends are invited to attend our Annual General Meeting and yarning session. The event is an opportunity to find out more…
Stuff People Get Wrong About Aboriginal History: A Thread
The good people at Thread Reader have provided an ‘unroll’ of the brilliant series of tweets by Evelyn Araluen, correcting myths of Aboriginal History.…
“What kind of question is that?”: The University of Sydney, the Ramsay Centre proposal and the scorched earth of Indigenous teaching and research on campus
Almost entirely absent from the contemporary educational mindset was any sense that cultures might not all be equal and that truth might not be…
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 Max Weber Teaches Us About the Ramsay Centre’s Debate
We are not all Weberians. But Weber’s work alerts us to a deep-seated intellectual danger that we should at least consider seriously. Academic inquiry…