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Writing, art and drama have long served as vehicles for intellectual women of colour worldwide to magnetize their physical and intellectual resistance and theorize their insurgency and survival of imperial domination. Drawing from this tradition, Incantation creates, and curates live, multivocal performances of seminal feminist-of-colour texts and creative responses to them. As one enactment of transnational decolonial feminist-of-colour praxis, the academic/artist/activist location opens channels for multiple reading/listening positions and loci of enunciation. Delinking from colonizing practices ‘backstage’ fosters the development of critical race, gender and decolonial literacies and praxes for the Australian settler-colonizing context, including ‘Wild Tongues and Insurgent Texts’, deciphering, re-existence and playful cosmic travelling.
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.
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.
