1 Introduction: Articulating a Critical Racial and Decolonial Liberatory Imperative for Our Times
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Debbie Bargallie
Abstract
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.
Abstract
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.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Series Editors’ Preface vii
- List of Figures and Tables ix
- Notes on Contributors x
- Foreword xvii
- Acknowledgements xxi
- Introduction: Articulating a Critical Racial and Decolonial Liberatory Imperative for Our Times 1
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Going beyond ‘Decolonize the Curriculum’
- Being Woke to Anti-Intellectualism: Indigenous Resistance and Futures 13
- Decolonizing Australian Universities: Why Embedding Indigenous Content in the Curriculum Fails That Task 32
- Let’s Get Critical: Thinking with and beyond the ‘Dead White Men’ of Social Theory 49
- (De)constituting Settler Subjects: A Retrospective Critical Race-Decolonizing Account 62
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Being in the Classroom
- Shedding the Colonial Skin and Digging Deep as Decolonial Praxis 79
- Racially Literate Teacher Education: (Im)possibilities for Disrupting the Racial Silence 93
- In Conversation with Helena Liu: Redeeming Leadership – a Project of Critical Hope 111
- The Provocateur as Decolonial Praxis 123
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Doing Race in the Disciplines
- Decolonizing the Curriculum in the Colonial Debtscape 137
- Race-ing the Law 152
- Assembling Decolonial Anti-Racist Praxis from the Margins: Reflections from Critical Community Psychology 164
- Unravelling the Model Minority Myth and Breaking the Racial Silence: A Collaborative Critical Auto-Ethnography 178
- Counter-Storytelling as Critical Praxis 190
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Building Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies beyond the Academy
- Incantation: Insurgent Texts as Decolonial Feminist Praxis 205
- Race at Work within Social Policy 227
- ‘The Sole Source of Truth’: Harnessing the Power of the Spoken Word through Indigenous Community Radio 246
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Resistance, Solidarity, Survival
- Death Can Be Clarifying: Considering the Forces That Move Us 261
- In Conversation with Yassir Morsi: Slow Ontology as Resistance 276
- Teaching Race, Conceptualizing Solidarity 290
- In Conversation with Alana Lentin: Racial Literacy – an Act of Solidarity 305
- Teacher/Decolonizer 317
- Index 322
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Series Editors’ Preface vii
- List of Figures and Tables ix
- Notes on Contributors x
- Foreword xvii
- Acknowledgements xxi
- Introduction: Articulating a Critical Racial and Decolonial Liberatory Imperative for Our Times 1
-
Going beyond ‘Decolonize the Curriculum’
- Being Woke to Anti-Intellectualism: Indigenous Resistance and Futures 13
- Decolonizing Australian Universities: Why Embedding Indigenous Content in the Curriculum Fails That Task 32
- Let’s Get Critical: Thinking with and beyond the ‘Dead White Men’ of Social Theory 49
- (De)constituting Settler Subjects: A Retrospective Critical Race-Decolonizing Account 62
-
Being in the Classroom
- Shedding the Colonial Skin and Digging Deep as Decolonial Praxis 79
- Racially Literate Teacher Education: (Im)possibilities for Disrupting the Racial Silence 93
- In Conversation with Helena Liu: Redeeming Leadership – a Project of Critical Hope 111
- The Provocateur as Decolonial Praxis 123
-
Doing Race in the Disciplines
- Decolonizing the Curriculum in the Colonial Debtscape 137
- Race-ing the Law 152
- Assembling Decolonial Anti-Racist Praxis from the Margins: Reflections from Critical Community Psychology 164
- Unravelling the Model Minority Myth and Breaking the Racial Silence: A Collaborative Critical Auto-Ethnography 178
- Counter-Storytelling as Critical Praxis 190
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Building Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies beyond the Academy
- Incantation: Insurgent Texts as Decolonial Feminist Praxis 205
- Race at Work within Social Policy 227
- ‘The Sole Source of Truth’: Harnessing the Power of the Spoken Word through Indigenous Community Radio 246
-
Resistance, Solidarity, Survival
- Death Can Be Clarifying: Considering the Forces That Move Us 261
- In Conversation with Yassir Morsi: Slow Ontology as Resistance 276
- Teaching Race, Conceptualizing Solidarity 290
- In Conversation with Alana Lentin: Racial Literacy – an Act of Solidarity 305
- Teacher/Decolonizer 317
- Index 322
