[csaa-forum] "Post-racial States": New Issue of Critical Race and Whiteness Studies

[Holly Randell-Moon]

Critical Race and
Whiteness Studies (formerly the Australian
Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association ejournal) has recently published a special issue
on the theme “Post-racial states”. It contains the following articles:

 

·     
“Post-racial States” by Holly Randell-Moon
(Macquarie University)

·     
“A colonising paradox: White presencing and
contamination politics in the Australian white-vanishing trope” by Elspeth
Tilley (Massey University)

·     
“The Myth of Post-Racialism: Hegemonic and
Counterhegemonic Stories About Race and Racism in the United States” by Babacar
M’Baye (Kent State University)

·     
“Getting ‘post racial’ in the ‘Australian’
State: What remains overlooked in the premise ‘getting beyond racism’?” by Fiona
McAllan (Macquarie University)

·     
“Critical Race and Disability Framework: A new
paradigm for understanding discrimination against people from non-English
speaking backgrounds and Indigenous people with disability” by Louise St
Guillaume (University of Notre Dame, Sydney) (ACRAWSA Essay Competition Winner
2010)

 

The issue also features reviews of the following:

·     
Tanja Dreher & Christina Ho (eds.) 2009. Beyond the Hijab Debates: New Conversations
on Gender, Race and Religion, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing.

·     
Kay Anderson. 2007. Race and the Crisis of Humanism, London and New York: Routledge.

·     
Arlene Dávila. 2008. Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race, New York:
New York University Press. 

 

To access the articles, please go to the journal home page
here:

http://www.acrawsa.org.au/ejournal/







Dr. Holly Randell-Moon
Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies
Faculty of Arts
Macquarie University, NSW 2109
AustraliaEditor
Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
http://www.acrawsa.org.au/ejournalMediating Faiths: Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century
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