Overview
- Examines how multiculturalism functions in the 21st century by considering a number of different texts
- Discusses how the ideology of official multiculturalism has declined and how everyday multiculturalism functions in the context of a history that has privileged Christianity and whiteness
- Offers a new perspective on Australian culture in the present day
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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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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jon Stratton is an adjunct professor at the University of South Australia. He is attached to the UniSA Creative unit. Jon has published widely in Cultural Studies, Australian Studies, Popular Music Studies, Jewish Studies, and on race and multiculturalism. Jon’s most recent book related to the present topic is Uncertain Lives: Culture, Race and Neoliberalism in Australia (2011).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multiculturalism, Whiteness and Otherness in Australia
Authors: Jon Stratton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50079-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50078-8Published: 18 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50081-8Published: 18 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50079-5Published: 17 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 315
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Australasian Culture, Ethnicity Studies, Australasian Cinema and TV, Global/International Culture