Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies
Breaking the Silence
Edited by Debbie Bargallie and Nilmini Fernando
ISBN
978-1529234398Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529234411Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529234411Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies
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.
“The innovative power of this collection lies in how it so brilliantly negotiates this double-bind to “Unmask the Racial Contract” (Bargallie, 2020) of white supremacy that continues to interpellate and capture its targeted subjects.” Journal of Global Indigeneity
"This powerhouse collection is a must read." Jackie Huggins, historian and author
“This necessary book offers rich theoretical and practical strategies for working with racial and decolonial literacies. Well-written, engaging and stimulating chapters from an exciting array of scholars, authors and activists.” Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, Whakatāne, New Zealand
“This book is a profound and urgent collection bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars committed to the collective task of dismantling structures of white supremacy and settler colonialism in Australia and beyond. That commitment is evident in every page from Parlo Singh’s preface with its call for “deep listening,” to the clarity of Debbie Bargallie and Nilmini Fernando’s introduction to the project of critical race and decolonial literacies, throughout all the chapters and interviews, to the final poem by Ambelin Kwaymullina that shows how the demand to educate others can leave Aboriginal people 'no space at all,' without giving up hope that classrooms can be ‘places of possibility.’ This collection teaches us how sustaining our critiques of the structural violence of racism and colonialism is a form of solidarity. Highly recommended for all those who are labouring and teaching for justice.” Sara Ahmed, feminist writer and independent scholar
Debbie Bargallie is Principal Research Fellow with the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research and Griffith Institute for Educational Research at Griffith University.
Nilmini Fernando is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University and a Critical Race Feminist educator and organizational consultant.
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 McLaughlin
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
