This book broaches what has become a a ~noisy silencea (TM) whereby
conversations about race and ethnic relationships are understood as
unbalanced, irrelevant or as too dangerous to speak about. It is
concerned with the ways that race and ethnic relationships are
spoken about in contemporary western societies such as Australia
and the changed and confused debates that underpin those
discussions. Parents and teachers at one State secondary school in
Melbourne Australia speak about race and ethnic relationships as
their school community is increasingly altered by globalising,
technological and population change. Newspapers and public policy
debates avoid discussions about race relationships even as
discussions about national identity and direction are crucial
themes. This book argues that race and ethnic relationships must be
understood in new ways; that the analytical frameworks provided by
constructivist thought and post-colonial writing must be
interrogated to provide more comprehensive methodological resources
to examine these relationships. Recent events, such as attacks on
New York, Madrid and London, and riots in Paris and Sydney, suggest
that the social world as we know it has changed. The new sense of
danger which has emerged in increasingly globalised times is the
re-emergence of an other identity which is no longer easily
identifiable as inside or outside of who-we-are. That they could be
anyone-of-us, even as their presence as an-other is made concretely
and terrifyingly real, adds a new and frightening overlay to the
discussion of contemporary race and ethnic relations.
a oeThis book works on so many different levels -- as a research
narrative; as a story of the policyof multiculturalism in
Australia; as an account of a struggle to interpret cultural
differences; as an ethnography of a school dealing with profound
demographic changes; and as an interpretation of how change occurs
and re-shapes not only people but also institutions.a
Fazal Rizvi, Professor in Educational Policy Studies at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
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