Unmasking the Racial Contract: Indigenous voices on racism in the Australian Public Service - Softcover

Debbie Bargallie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1925302652 ISBN 13: 9781925302653

Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS), 2020

Synopsis

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. Bargallie 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, Bargallie aims to help us see and understand and ultimately challenge racism. This original and innovative book, written from an Indigenous standpoint, is the first to use race as a key framework to critically examine the discrimination faced by Indigenous employees in an Australian institution. Bargallie 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. Bargallie provides an important counter-narrative to the pervasive myth of meritocracy, and encourages readers to consider the effects of the racial contract in colonial-colonised relations in Australia more broadly.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1925302652
• ISBN 13: 9781925302653
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256