The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism
White Nation, Against Paranoid Nationalism & Later Writings
A groundbreaking collection of seminal works by renowned anthropologist and cultural critic, Ghassan Hage. Praised by internationally acclaimed author of Complaint!, Sara Ahmed, as 'a new way of accounting for race, its affective grammars, its holds and habits.'
The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism brings together some of the most important and sought-after works by one of Australia’s leading anthropologists and cultural critics: Ghassan Hage. This groundbreaking collection features the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Hage’s seminal publication, White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society, and the twentieth anniversary edition of Hage’s follow-up publication, Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society.
Along with a compendium of Hage’s later writings, The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the complexities of modern-day race politics on the unceded lands of a settler colonial society.
Foreword by Jumana Bayeh, Paula Abood, Sarah Ayoub and Randa Abdel-Fattah. Cover art by Amani Haydar.
'The writings of Ghassan Hage are at the forefront of antiracism and anticolonial thinking.' — Tony Birch
'Transformative and transcendent.' — Sara Saleh
'One of the most important writers of our time.' — Omar Sakr
Ghassan Hage is Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne and a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Anthropology in Germany. He is the author and editor of many works, including most recently, The Diasporic Condition (2022).
Critically acclaimed Arab-Australian team involved with publication:
Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University. Her most recent academic books are Coming of Age in the War on Terror (2021) and Islamophobia and Everyday Multiculturalism (2017).
Dr Paula Abood is a thought leader in community-engaged practice and cultural development. She was the inaugural Australia Council Fellow for Community Arts and Cultural Development and recipient of the Ros Bower Award.
Dr Sarah Ayoub is a freelance journalist and bestselling author. She has a PhD in intersectional teen literature from the University of Notre Dame.
Dr Jumana Bayeh is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University. She is the author of The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora (2019).
Amani Haydar is the multi-award-winning author of The Mother Wound (2021) and an esteemed visual artist and public advocate for women’s health and safety.
Dr Michael Mohammed Ahmad is the founding director of Sweatshop Literacy Movement. His latest novel, The Other Half of You (2021) was shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Award and won the 2022 Queensland Literary Award for Fiction.
