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Luke Person debunks the myth of ‘anti-white racism’ by unpacking the history of race and racism and the relationship between racism and power.

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This article analyses the term ‘white privilege’, discusses some of its strengths and limitations and unpacks the prioritisation of whiteness in Australia.

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In this article, Mary Frances O’Dowd takes a close look at systemic and institutional racism. Drawing on examples, O’Dowd unpacks these terms, traces their history and examines their relationship to privilege and discrimination. O’Dowd explores the role of public advocacy in dismantling systems of oppression.

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In this article, Anna North discusses ‘what it means to be anti-racist’ by distinguishing ‘not racist’ from ‘anti racist’.

‘Not racist’ is defined as mere statement and stance of neutrality whereas ‘Anti racist’ is defined as a practice that actively opposes systemic racism. North refers to the history of anti-racism, which has its roots in abolition, the post emancipation society and 20^th century civil rights movements to illustrate that it’s not sufficient to be a non-racist.

Additionally, North provides recommendations and several resources to practice and commit to anti racism.

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From the publisher:

‘In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem.

Using his extraordinary gifts as a teacher and story-teller, Kendi helps us recognise that everyone is, at times, complicit in racism whether they realise it or not, and by describing with moving humility his own journey from racism to antiracism, he shows us how instead to be a force  for good. Along the way, Kendi punctures all the myths and taboos that so often cloud our understanding, from arguments about what race is and whether racial differences exist to the complications that arise when race intersects with ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality.

In the process he demolishes the myth of the post-racial society and builds from the ground up a vital new understanding of racism - what it is, where it is hidden, how to identify it and what to do about it.’

Publication Details

Written by Ibram X. Kendi

Published by Penguin Random House 2019

Luke Pearson invites Australians to work together by recognising why it is important to acknowledge our history to understand the causal relationship between past and present.