Multiculturalism, Whiteness and Otherness in Australia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030500788)

This book examines the experience of race and ethnicity in Australia after the withering away of official multiculturalism. The first chapter looks at the formation of the Australian state, the role that multiculturalism has played, and the impact of neoliberal ideas. The second chapter takes nightclubbing in the city of Perth during the 1980s, the peak period for official multiculturalism, to exemplify how diversity and exclusion functioned in everyday life. The third chapter considers the imbrication of Christianity in the Australian socio-cultural order and its impact on the limits of multiculturalism with particular concentration on Islam and the Australian Muslim experience. Subsequent chapters discuss the exclusionary experience of various groups identified as non-white through the lens of films, popular music and television programs.

Author: Jon Stratton
ISBN-10: 3030500780
ISBN-13: 9783030500788
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 07/18/2020
Pages: 315
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d