Defending Race Privilege on the Internet: How Whiteness Uses Innocence Discourse Online
As the debate around the proposed Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation rages, we are reminded that, in order to be reproduced and maintained as…
Thinking Relationally About Race, Blackness and Indigeneity in Australia – Full Programme
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Opening the Flood Gates: ‘Backyard’ Racism, White Supremacy and Disruptive Discomfort in Academic Classrooms
Very few would deny that the 2016 US Presidential Election bolstered extreme-right movements globally, signalling an urgent need to understand specific ways white supremacist…
How the British Museum Changed its Story About the Gweagal Shield
When Lieutenant James Cook landed, uninvited, onto the continent now known as Australia, he began a colossal theft. The British colonial project initiated by…
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…
Women and Children in War Zones and Children Born of War
The 25 April marks the one day of the year when Australians are encouraged to stop and reflect on the lives of men lost…
Teaching Nationhood: An Asian-Australian Story
When Anzac Day approaches, I reflect on my experience of teaching about Australian nationhood in the context of being a non-Indigenous, Asian migrant to…
The X the Nation Built
1. We should always speak out loud on the crimes of war and empire. Between the words that echo in our chambers, there are…
Australian National Identity: White Patriarchy through the ANZAC Legend
I spot him before he actually notices me. Old mate is drunk and belligerent, not minding his own business like the other men, an…