Racism – Page 4

Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia: a review

By Samaya Argüello

A collection of diverse, deeply personal and insightful experiences from a range of Indigenous Australian authors.

In Visible Ink Interviews: Fadzi Whande

Kat George in conversation with Fadzi Whande

Kat George chats with Global Diversity and Inclusion Strategist Fadzi Whande about the opportunities and struggles for diversity, inclusion and empowerment that exist within our institutions.

Reflections In Visible Ink: Storytelling to Heal What Hurts

By Diana Ong, Sunili Govinnage, Emiko Watanabe and Rhuwina Griffiths

Participants from the In Visible Ink symposium reflect upon the prospects of trauma, memory and healing that emerge when we tell difficult stories.

In Visible Ink symposium: The museum as a site of trauma and healing

By Sarah Yeung

Sarah Yeung reviews the In Visible Ink symposium, in light of the role of museums as both sites of trauma and healing.

A short history of Rakhine State (Myanmar)

By Ali MC

Ali MC considers the statelessness of the Rohingya people, and how the ethnic divisions resulting from colonisation have left them with few allies.

A Hero Overlooked: a review of “The Missing Man”

By Heath Chamerski

Peter Rees chronicles the barriers broken down, and those still standing, in the life of Kamilaroi man Len Waters, Australia’s first Indigenous aviator.

Politics, media sensationalism and the so-called African gang crisis

By Francis Deng

The demonisation of the Sudanese community is not a new phenomenon, it is a trend. Francis Deng reflects on the unseen impacts of media sensationalism.

Who has the right to associate with their community?

By Kamna Muddagouni

It might be said that the law recognises that being able to spend time with those who you call your own is important to one feeling human. But what does this protection mean if police are issued broad powers to determine who is a suitable person for you to associate with?

Redefining identity through community art projects

By Devana Senanayake

“We are not either. We are not specifically Asian. We are not specifically Australian, but we live within that space,” says Dr Tammy Wong Hulbert, speaking about her exhibition Hyphenated that was shown at The Substation over March and April 2018. I encountered Tammy’s name several times on the Facebook group “Asian Australian Studies Research Network” before […]