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Multiculturalism, Whiteness and Otherness in Australia

By Jon Stratton

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030500788, 9783030500795
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-50079-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3454301 bytes)
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
VIII, 315\318
Time added
2021-01-06 05:41:07
Cultural and Media Studies; Australasian Culture;

Description

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.

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