Understanding Racism in a Post-Racial World, 1st ed. 2019 Visible Invisibilities

This book addresses the question: how can we talk about race in a world that is considered post-racial, a world where race doesn?t exist? Kamaloni engages with the tradition of everyday racism and traces the process of racialisation through the interaction of bodies in space. Exploring the embodied experience exposes the idea of post-racialism as a response to continued cultural anxieties about race and the desire to erase it. Understanding Racism in a Post-Racial World presents a broader question about what everyday encounters about race might tell us about the current cultural construction of race. 

The book provides a much-needed investigation of the intersection of race, bodies and space as a critical part of how bodies and spaces become racialised, and will be of value to students and scholars interested in understanding and discussing race across interdisciplinary areas such as cultural studies, communication, gender studies, geography, body studies, literature studies and urban studies. 

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Where did you come from (you black bitch)? – Australia and Racism

Chapter Three: Can I touch you? – Everyday Racism

Chapter Four: What are you doing here? – The Politics of Race and Belonging at the Airport

Chapter Five: Is there someone else I can talk to? – Raced Bodies at Work

Chapter Seven: Conclusion 

Sunshine Kamaloni is Researcher and Postgraduate Advocate at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

By mapping certain experiences of race on to the author's own body, she unmasks the deep spaces of silence, invisibility and hyper-visibility that black bodies occupy in the most routine of daily tasks

Explores a brief history of race in the context of Australia

Mixes personal narrative with reimagined history and academic critique