Multiculturalism, Whiteness and Otherness in Australia

by Jon Stratton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030500810
• ISBN13: 9783030500818
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"