The letters page of one of the local newspapers is hosting a largely predictable series of letters complaining about immigrants. Most of it's just comparatively harmless whinging - "loud, animated conversations in foreign languages" in the food court, OH NOES - which don't really clamour for a response ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how much longer this podcast will be available at the ABC Radio National site, so go listen now: the Good Spirit Festival was a remarkable meeting between Indigneous Australians and African immigrants held in Tasmania. As well as songs and dancing, the participants shared their experiences of dispossession. Shamefully, for some of the ( Read more... )

Out of Africa but not yet embraced by Australia: "While they are enormously grateful for the chance to become Australians, African-Australians routinely experience discrimination in their daily lives. They find it hard to get jobs fitting their qualifications gained in Australia. They encounter petty racism on a regular basis... What part will ( Read more... )

Fer yer interest: I've posted the links I bookmarked while writing the Time, Unincorporated essay over at kateorman - stuff on race and the Beeb, UK history, and US culture, especially the media representation of African American women ( Read more... )

While I'm here, I'll post some of my perpetually backed-up collection of links.

First some Doctor Who-related news. Firstly:

Doctor Who's Noel Clarke features in black actors photography exhibition

And secondly - if you'd like a peek at Captain Magambo's return, there are lots of photos from the Doctor Who Easter special, Planet of the Dead, ( Read more... )

beccaelizabeth has begun to do what I still haven't got around to: Counting the POC in Torchwood.

And now, some local news. In no particular order:

Lexicographers note the rise of Lebanese Australian English, amongst other "ethnolects".

What the-! Ku Klux Klan recruiting in New Zealand. (I still have to report on our New Zealand trip.)

The guvmint's Diverse ( Read more... )

A bout of ill health has kept me away from this LJ for a bit. There's lots I hope to post, though I am saving up some stuff for International Blog Against Racism Week (August 4 through August 10 2008 - see ibarw for info.)

It so often happens that I just stumble across two things which bookend each other, like this:

Thing one: Last week, entirely at ( Read more... )

In the last two days, the Sydney Morning Herald has published several news items on increasing de facto segregation in public schooling in New South Wales, with White families sending their children to schools with fewer Indigenous, Middle Eastern, or Asian students. The pattern is occurring in rural and regional Australia and also in Sydney. ( ( Read more... )

From nostalgia_lj: race and schizophrenia in the uk.

Similarly, the impact of racism on mental and physical health: How racism hurts -- literally.

Medical care and racism: this is your war on drugs: studies reveal different treatment, including different medications, given in US ERs based on race and ethnicity.

Nurturing prejudice a matter of nature: "A ( Read more... )

Sydney Morning Herald blogger: South African Jews and the new wave of anti-Semitism.

No apology for white Australia policy: hardly surprising from the chairman of the latest small anti-immigration party, Australia First, involved in the ugly opposition to an Islamic school in the suburb of Camden (more about this shortly). Jim Saleam used to run ( Read more... )