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.
Cuprins
Foreword – Parlo Singh
1. Introduction: Articulating a Critical Racial and Decolonial Liberatory Imperative for Our Times – Debbie Bargallie and Nilmini Fernando
Part 1: Going beyond ‘Decolonize the Curriculum’
2. Being Woke to Anti-intellectualism: Indigenous Resistance and Futures – Bronwyn Carlson and Madi Day
3. Decolonizing Australian Universities: Why Embedding Indigenous Content in the Curriculum Fails That Task – David Hollinsworth
4. Let’s Get Critical: Thinking with and beyond the ‘Dead White Men’ of Social Theory – Na’Ama Carlin
5. (De)Constituting Settler Subjects: A Retrospective Critical Race-Decolonizing Account – Joseph Pugliese
Part 2: Being in the Classroom
6. Shedding the Colonial Skin and Digging Deep as Decolonial Praxis – Faye Rosas Blanch
7. Racially Literate Teacher Education: (Im)Possibilities for Disrupting the Racial Silence – Sue Whatman and Juliana Mohok Mc Laughlin
8. In Conversation with Helena Liu: Redeeming Leadership: A Project of Hope – Debbie Bargallie, Nilmini Fernando and Helena Liu
9. The Provocateur as Decolonial Praxis – Fiona Foley
Part 3: Doing Race in the Disciplines
10. Decolonizing the Curriculum in the Colonial Debtscape – Maria Giannacopoulos
11. Race-Ing the Law – Jennifer M. Nielsen
12. Assembling Decolonial Anti-racist Praxis from the Margins: Reflections from Critical Community Psychology – Christopher C. Sonn
13. Unravelling the Model Minority Myth and Breaking the Racial Silence: A Collaborative Critical Auto-Ethnography – Mandy Truong and Jessica Walton
14. Counter Storytelling as Critical Praxis – Nicole Watson
Part 4: Building Race-Critical and Decolonial Literacies beyond the Academy
15. Incantation: Insurgent Texts as Decolonial Feminist Praxis – Nilmini Fernando
16. Race at Work within Social Policy – Zuleyka Zevallos
17. ‘The Sole Source of Truth’: Harnessing the Power of the Spoken Word through Indigenous Community Radio – Sinead Singh, Susan Forde and Jyi Lawton
Part 5: Resistance, Solidarity, Survival
18. Death Can Be Clarifying: Considering the Forces That Move Us – Samantha Schulz
19. In Conversation with Yassir Morsi: Slow Ontology as Resistance – Debbie Bargallie and Yassir Morsi
20. Teaching Race, Conceptualizing Solidarity – Andrew Brooks
21. In Conversation with Alana Lentin: Racial Literacy: An Act of Solidarity – Debbie Bargallie and Alana Lentin
22. Teacher/Decolonizer – Ambelin Kwaymullina
Despre autor
Helena Liu is Senior Lecturer at UTS Business School, Australia. Central to her work is the critique of how imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism and patriarchy sustain our enduring romance with leadership.