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…
ACRAWSA’s New Logo
We are delighted to announce that Jacinta Fong from Flinders University has won the competition to find a new logo for the Australian Critical…
Radical Skin/Moderate Masks Book Launch
You are invited to attend the Sydney Book Launch for Yassir Morsi’s Radical Skin/Moderate Masks: De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies. The author, Yassir…
ACRAWSA T-Shirts are here
ACRAWSA t-shirts with a quote from The White Possessive by Aileen Moreton-Ronbinson are currently for sale for $20 each. Available in men’s sizes S,…
The Uluru Statement and Manus Island: How the settler colonial state of exception compounds race and the necessity for a Republic of Australia
Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the first sovereign Nations of the Australian continent and its adjacent islands, and possessed it under…
ACRAWSA Symposium Photos
View photos of the Thinking Relationally about Race, Blackness and Indigeneity in Australia symposium with Alexander G. Weheliye, Irene Watson, Nikki Moodie, Kaiya Aboagye, Sandy…
CRAWS Journal Past Issues Are Now Available
ACRAWSA is proud to have published a free, open access peer reviewed journal via its website, the Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Journal (CRAWS). Due to the painstaking work of Emma Murphy,…
Open Letter to the editors of the Monash Bioethics Review
In November 2018, it came to ACRAWSA’s notice that the Monash Bioethics Review had published an article by Jonathan Anomaly, entitled ‘Defending Eugenics’. In that the journal is based in Australia, we…
‘Wrong to be White?’
ACRAWSA President, Alana Lentin was interviewed on the ABC Radio National Program, The Minefield. You can listen to the podcast here. Last year, former President, Aileen Moreton-Robinson was also interviewed on the…
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 presents western civilisation not as “specific” but as…
Unpacking ‘Cash Cows’ International Students and the Economism of Asian Racialisation
ust as in the nineteenth century, the border is employed as a complex array of discourses and practices through which international students are constructed as a threat to the working and living…
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, activists, and practitioners committed to Aboriginal and Torres…