Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies

Debbie Bargallie is Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow with the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research and Griffith Institute for Educational Research at Griffith University, Queensland. Debbie is a descendent of the Kamilaroi and Wonnarua peoples of New South Wales. Nilmini Fernando is an Adjunct Fellow at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University, Queensland and a Critical Race Feminist educator and organizational consultant.

Foreword - Parlo Singh
1. Introduction: Articulating a Racial and Decolonial Liberatory Imperative for Our Times - Debbie Bargallie and Nilmini Fernando
Part 1: Going beyond ‘Decolonize the Curriculum’
2. Being Woke to Anti-intellectualism: Indigenous Resistance and Futures - Bronwyn Carlson and Madi Day
3. Decolonizing Australian Universities: Why Embedding Indigenous Content in the Curriculum Fails That Task - David Hollinsworth
4. Let’s Get Critical: Thinking with and beyond the ‘Dead White Men’ of Social Theory - Na’Ama Carlin
5. (De)Constituting Settler Subjects: A Retrospective Critical Race-Decolonizing Account - Joseph Pugliese
Part 2: Being in the Classroom
6. Shedding the Colonial Skin and Digging Deep as Decolonial Praxis - Faye Rosas Blanch
7. Racially Literate Teacher Education: (Im)Possibilities for Disrupting the Racial Silence - Sue Whatman and Juliana Mohok McLaughlin
8. In Conversation with Helena Liu: Redeeming Leadership: A Project of Hope - Debbie Bargallie, Nilmini Fernando and Helena Liu
9. The Provocateur as Decolonial Praxis - Fiona Foley
Part 3: Doing Race in the Disciplines
10. Decolonizing the Curriculum in the Colonial Debtscape - Maria Giannacopoulos
11. Race-Ing the Law - Jennifer M. Nielsen
12. Assembling Decolonial Anti-racist Praxis from the Margins: Reflections from Critical Community Psychology - Christopher Sonn
13. Unravelling the Model Minority Myth and Breaking the Racial Silence: A Collaborative Critical Auto-Ethnography - Mandy Truong and Jessica Walton
14. Counter Storytelling as Critical Praxis - Nicole Watson
Part 4: Building Race-Critical and Decolonial Literacies beyond the Academy
15. Incantation: Insurgent Texts as Decolonial Feminist Praxis - Nilmini Fernando
16. Race at Work within Social Policy - Zuleyka Zevallos
17. ‘The Sole Source of Truth’: Harnessing the Power of the Spoken Word through Indigenous Community Radio - Sinead Singh, Susan Forde and Jyi Lawton
Part 5: Resistance, Solidarity, Survival
18. Death Can Be Clarifying: Considering the Forces That Move Us - Samantha Schulz
19. In Conversation with Yassir Morsi: Slow Ontology as Resistance - Debbie Bargallie and Yassir Morsi
20. Teaching Race, Conceptualizing Solidarity - Andrew Brooks
21. In Conversation with Alana Lentin: Racial Literacy: An Act of Solidarity - Debbie Bargallie and Alana Lentin
22. Teacher/Decolonizer - Ambelin Kwaymullina