S1/E5 Indigeneity, colonialism and institutional racism (Western Sydney University, Australia)

Guest Hosts - Dr Debbie Bargallie is a descendent of the Kamilaroi and Wonnarua peoples of the North-West and Upper Hunter Valley regions of New South Wales, Australia. Her doctoral thesis is the 2019 winner of the prestigious Stanner Award, and will be published by Aboriginal Studies Press in 2020 as Unmasking the Racial Contract: Indigenous voices on racism in the Australian Public Service. She is currently a Postdoctoral Senior Research Fellow at the Griffith Institute for Educational Research at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. Dr Alana Lentin is Associate Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University. She is a European and West Asian Jewish woman who is a settler on Gadigal land. She works on the critical theorization of race, racism and antiracism. Her new book Why Race Still Matters is out in the UK in April 2020 (Polity). She is a graduate of the European University Institute where she earned her PhD in political and social sciences in 2002, and the London School of Economics (1997). Prior to joining the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University, she was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Sussex University (2006-2012). Before this she held a Marie Curie EC Research Fellowship at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford (2003-2005). In 2017, she was the Hans Speier Visiting Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York and has previously been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin (2010). She is co-editor of the Rowman and Littlefield International book series, Challenging Migration Studies and former President of the Australian Critical Race & Whiteness Studies Association (2017-20). She is on the editorial board of Ethnic and Racial Studies, Identities, Journal of Australian Studies, Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, and the Pluto Books series, Vagabonds. Her current research examines the interplay between race and digital technology and social media. Her most recent research project analysed the use of ‘antiracism apps’ for education and intervention. Recent books include The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a neoliberal age (with Gavan Titley 2011) and Racism and Sociology (2014 with Wulf D. Hund). She has written for The Guardian, OpenDemocracy, ABC Religion and Ethics, The Conversation, Sociological Review and Public Seminar. She has been interviewed for The Minefield on ABC Radio National, local ABC radio, Japanese television and Korean radio among others. She teaches a Masters course, Understanding Race which is accompanied by a series of blogs and an open syllabus available at http://www.alanalentin.net/teaching/. Her personal website where she blogs extensively is www.alanalentin.net