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This collection offers a unique exploration of critical racial literacy and anti-racist praxis in Australia’s educational landscape. Combining critical race and Indigenous theories and perspectives, contributors articulate a decolonial liberatory imperative for our times. In an age when ‘decolonization’ has become a buzzword, the book demystifies ‘critical anti-racism praxis,’ advocating for critical and multidisciplinary approaches.
Educators from a range of disciplines including Law, Indigenous Studies, Health, Sociology, Policy and the Arts collectively share compelling stories of educating on race, racism and anti-racism, offering strategies that can be put into practice in classrooms, activism and structural reforms.
Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies: Breaking the Silence is a collaborative effort driven by scholars and educators from within and beyond the academy committed to addressing race, racism and anti-racism in Australian institutions. Editors Debbie Bargallie and Nilmini Fernando conceptualize racial literacy as a decolonial anti-racist praxis that examines the intricate dynamics between race and power, both historically and in the present. The book builds a collective platform for oppositional voices in the face of white supremacist ideologies and challenges to critical race studies and pedagogies and emphasizes the need for praxis-oriented approaches that bridge theory and transformative action.
In Australia, race studies have long been neglected or marginalized and critical Indigenous knowledges overshadowed and silenced. This collection challenges this status quo and addresses the urgent need for critical racial and decolonial literacies in a society where racism is embedded in everyday life.
Divided into five sections, contributors draw from various critical racial and decolonial theories and pedagogies to confront historic and contemporary denial and misrepresentation of race and centre critical Indigenous perspectives to establish a foundation for critical racial and decolonial literacies across multiple disciplines and public initiatives.
Together, they challenge the superficial approaches of diversity and inclusion initiatives in academia and emphasize the need for deeper structural change grounded in critical praxis.
By combining critical race and critical Indigenous perspectives, Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies serves as a vital resource for confronting the enduring legacies of colonialism, imperialism and structural oppression.
Alana Lentin is Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University, Australia. She is a Jewish European woman who is a settler on Gadigal-Wangal land. She works on the critical theorization of race, racism and anti-racism. She is the author of Why Race Still Matters (2020), The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age (with Gavan Titley, 2011), Racism and Sociology (with Wulf D. Hund, 2014), Racism (2008) and Racism and Anti-racism in Europe (2004). Debbie Bargallie speaks with Alana about her international race critical scholarship and teaching work. They deliberate over the silencing of race, its denial, debatability and the hostilities towards critical race work; together, they impel us to urgently reclaim racial literacy as an act of solidarity and community building, born of intellectual activism, mutuality, love and care.
Yassir Morsi is an Adjunct Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne and a provisional psychologist at an Islamic academy in Australia. His main area of research is the critical analysis of contemporary racism and Islamophobia and is the author of the auto-ethnography, Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies, published in 2017 with Rowman & Littlefield. Debbie Bargallie engages in a conversation with Morsi about his work as an academic and lecturer and as a provisional psychologist at an Islamic academy in Australia. Morsi speaks about the ways he navigates spaces that uphold white supremacy by keeping ‘one foot in and one foot out’ of the academy and enacts the concept of slow ontology as a praxis of resistance.
Helena Liu is an Associate Professor of Management at Bond Business School, Bond University on the traditional lands of the Kombumerri clan of the Yugambeh language group in the state of Queensland, Australia. In a conversation with Debbie Bargallie and Nilmini Fernando, Helena speaks about her critiques of how power sustains our enduring romance with leadership and imagines the possibilities for organizing through solidarity, love, and justice. Liu speaks about educating on race and racism in the fields of business studies and management and the inspiration for her unique first book, Redeeming Leadership: An Anti-Racist Feminist Intervention, which was published by Bristol University Press in January 2020.
