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Unmasking the Racial Contract: Indigenous Voices on Racism in the Australian Public Service
In an era of reconciliation and cultural diversity, Indigenous peoples in Australia still experience everyday and structural racisms in the workplace. Unmasking the Racial Contract is a study of one such workplace: the Australian Public Service. The author shows that despite claims of fairness, inclusion, opportunity, respect, and racial equality for all, Indigenous employees continue to languish on the lower rungs of the Australian Public Service employment ladder. By showing how racism is normalised in white institutions, the author helps us see and understand--and ultimately challenge--racism. This original and innovative book is written from an Indigenous standpoint, and uses race as a key framework to critically examine the discrimination faced by Indigenous employees in an Australian institution. The author provides an insider's perspective and privileges the voices of other Indigenous employees, and she applies critical race theory to unmask the racial contract that underpins the 'absent presence' of racism in the Australian Public Service.
Book Details
- Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
- Publish Date: Aug 26th, 2021
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
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- Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
- EAN: 9781925302653
- Categories: • Colonialism & Post-Colonialism• Human Resources & Personnel Management
About the Author
Dr. Debbie Bargallie is a descendent of the Kamilaroi and Wonnarua Aboriginal peoples of the North-West and Upper Hunter Valley regions of New South Wales, Australia. Debbie was born and raised on D'harawal country in Wollongong, New South Wales, where she continues to have strong connections. In 2019 she was awarded the prestigious Stanner Award by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies for her doctoral research on Indigenous employee's experiences of racism in the Australian Public Service. Debbie is currently a Postdoctoral Senior Research Fellow with the Griffith Institute of Educational Research at Griffith University.
Praise for this book
'Despite a history of conquest, genocide, and expropriation, to say nothing of a multi-decade official "White Australia" immigration policy, mainstream Australian discourse and scholarship still prefers to conceal the central reality of white racial domination with the evasive and obfuscatory categories of "diversity" and "culture." This courageous and hard-hitting text by Indigenous scholar Debbie Bargallie reveals the ugly truth of systemic racial exclusion behind the liberal façade--a lesson not merely in the workings of the Australian Public Service specifically but for the country far more broadly.' --Professor Charles Mills, Author of The Racial Contract, City University of New York
'This book addresses the critically important, but under-researched, field of racism in the everyday. Using a strong Indigenous methodology the research on which the book is based examines how the Australian non-Indigenous/Indigenous racial contract is enacted in everyday interactions, racial microaggressions and everyday performances. The socio-cultural space the book examines is the Australian Public Service but its theoretical frame, its key findings and its disturbing conclusions can be applied more broadly across Australian society. A key strength of the book was its historical linking, drawing on threads of earlier times, such as the experiences of Charlie Perkins, to show that this is not a new phenomenon, but rather an expected continuation of the older power dynamics of the racial contract, relatively unchanged in either their practice or their outcomes, despite changing rhetoric around race and Indigeneity.' --Distinguished Professor Maggie Walter (PhD, FASSA), University of Tasmania
'In Unmasking the Racial Contract, Debbie Bargallie has achieved something that Australian scholarship on the ongoing impact of colonization deeply needs: a sophisticated analysis of the ways in which race continues to frame the everyday experiences of First Nations people under colonialism. Bargallie's analysis of how an unspoken racial contract sits beneath the workings of an ostensibly neutral and tolerant institution--the Australian Public Service--will ring true to many racialised people whose interactions with institutions are a daily litany of microaggressions, so often met with denial. As such, Bargallie's book sits alongside other vital pieces of scholarship in the international critical race canon and should be widely read, in both Australia and far beyond.' --Alana Lentin, Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis, Western Sydney University
'Taking as her example that icon of meritocracy, the Australian Public Service, Debbie Bargallie's Indigenist critique of Australia's racial contract illuminates how race figures in the daily experiences of First Nations employees. As long as First Nations are recognised by Australia as a race, Australians will fiercely dispute when it is fair (recognition) and when it is unfair (racism) to distinguish persons by race. Drawing on yarning with twenty-one public servants, Bargallie conveys their forthright account of what it feels like to be racialised. Her sociology of the racial contract adds nuance to our understanding of recognition.' --Emeritus Professor Tim Rowse, Western Sydney University and the Australian National University