Racism

Arts & Culture
Special Report
Gaming can be a machine for empathy
By letting players experience racism and decide how to react, games can create an emotional connection that sparks genuine change

Politics & Society
Book extract
Remembering the BUMIDOM
A new book explores BUMIDOM, the controversial mass migration program from the Caribbean to France from 1963-1982, and the creative works keeping this memory alive

Politics & Society
Truth-telling and re-naming is an opportunity to redefine our future
Physical education pioneer Fritz Duras had a distinguished career, but our truth-telling process uncovered another side to Duras that can’t be ignored

Politics & Society
Analysis
Cities must act quickly to challenge disinformation-fuelled violence
Riots and violent unrest in the UK following the murder of children in Southport demonstrates the need for city governments to act quickly against disinformation

Arts & Culture
Universities can change names without distancing themselves from troubling histories
Removing a person’s name from a building need not mean the University severs its relationship with its past, instead it is an opportunity to redefine our future

Arts & Culture
‘The 1’: Something’s been forgotten in the Kanye-Taylor feud
There was more than one ‘victim’ from the infamous Kanye West 2009 VMA’s “I’mma let you finish” moment

Politics & Society
Flying the flag for change?
Australian symbols have meaning for us collectively – highlighting the past and present impacts of settler colonialism, racism and the possibility for a different future

Arts & Culture
Understanding modern attacks on Gandhi
Statues of Indian independence leader, Mahatma Gandhi, have been vandalised or removed around the world – but why does his likeness face attacks today?

Politics & Society
Book extract
Racism in sport: So where to from here?
While we have made great steps forward, when the ‘rubber hits the road’ Australia is coming up short when it comes to racism in sport

Arts & Culture
Podcasts
Is opera dead or can it redefine itself?
Caitlin Vincent, a lecturer in the creative industries, describes how we can interpret classical operas in a way that does not perpetuate harmful stereotypes or cultural appropriation