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Race, Ethnicity and Education in Globalised Times

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  • Provides a research narrative of the way an urban school community speaks about race and ethnic relationships in times of change
  • Interrogates the ‘noisy silence’ that surrounds discussions about race and ethnic difference in our time
  • Discusses the struggle to understand identity and race and cultural difference as change transforms the lives of people, institutions and communities
  • Presents a comprehensive methodological frame to explore the complex interactions that shape race and ethnic relationships
  • Analyses the history of multicultural policy and practice in Australia
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Encountering Silent Noise

    • Ruth Arber
    Pages 1-16
  3. Changing Identities in a Local School

    • Ruth Arber
    Pages 93-121
  4. Mapping the “Other”

    • Ruth Arber
    Pages 123-153
  5. Mapping Ourselves

    • Ruth Arber
    Pages 155-177
  6. Another Identity

    • Ruth Arber
    Pages 179-195
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 197-214

About this book

What is the speci?city of contemporary racism? And what happens to questions of race in a context where multiculturalism is taken for granted. Few authors address these kinds of questions with subtlety. For the most part, questions of racism are treated either as self-evident or alternatively as self-evidenced. The?rstapproach,accentuatedineverydaylife,andplayedoutinmediaexposés, is the tendencyto treat racism as manifestly self-evident. We just know what racism is in principle, and we just know what it looks like when we see it in practice. Dualistic assumptions dominate this sense of identity relations – persons are racist or they are not; an act is racist or it is not. However, despite the obviousness of racism in contexts where different people have different seating arrangements on a bus, or somebody says “I am better than you because your skin-colour is different”, this approach barely comes to terms with the depth of embodied politics and the elusiveness of structures of racism in the contemporary world.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

    Ruth Arber

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