Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Journal, Vol. 1, 2005

Author Notes

Sara Ahmed is a Reader in Race and Cultural is the author of Radicalism, Anti-racism and Studies in Goldsmiths College. Her formative Representation (1993), White Identities: years were spent in Australia and her work International and Historical Perspectives (2000), considers the politics of race in both British and 'Anti-racism' (2000), How to Argue (2001) and Australian contexts. Books include; Differences The Idea of the West'(2004). That Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism (1998); Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Suvendrini Perera (Curtin University of Post-Coloniality (2000) and The Cultural Politics Technology) has published widely on topics of Emotion (2004). She is currently working on relating to race, ethnicity, multiculturalism and two books: Orientations: Towards a Queer refugee issues. She is a contributor to a number Phenomenology (forthcoming 2006) and Doing of major anthologies of cultural studies and is Diversity: Racism and Educated Subjects. author of Reaches of Empire (Columbia UP) and editor of Asian and Pacific Inscriptions: Dr Aileen Moreton-Robinson is a Geonpul woman Identities/ Ethnicities/ Nationalities (Meridian). from Quandamooka (Moreton Bay). Previous to She is currently working on an ARC funded her appointment as Australian Research Council project on borders and junctions in the Asia- Postdoctoral Fellow she taught Indigenous Pacific region. A companion essay to this piece studies at Griffith University in Brisbane and appears in her co-edited issue of Borderlands e- Women‘s Studies at Flinders University in journal ”Cultural Ambivalence, Cultural Politics: Adelaide. She is author of Talkin‘ Up to the National Mythologies of Australia, Asia and the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Past‘ 3:1, 2005. Email: [email protected] Feminism, University of Queensland Press and editor of Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Jon Stratton is Professor of Cultural Studies at Cultural Criticism in Australia, Aboriginal Studies Curtin University of Technology in Perth. He has Press. Aileen has been involved in the struggle published widely in Cultural Studies. His most for Indigenous rights at local, state and national recent book was Coming Out Jewish: levels and has worked for a number of Constructing Ambivalent Identities (Routledge Indigenous organisations. Her writing in the area 2000). At present Jon is completing a book of native title, whiteness, race and feminism has provisionally entitled Disturbing Jews. He is also been published in anthologies and journals here engaged in a project examining the cultural and abroad. Dr Moreton-Robinson is President of specificity of Australian popular music since the the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness 1960s. Studies Association (www.acrawsa.org.au). Clare Bradford is Professor of Literary Studies at Irene Watson teaches law at Flinders University Deakin University, Melbourne, where she teaches and also works as a lawyer with the Aboriginal literature and children's literature. Her book Legal Rights Movement in South Australia. She Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian has published widely on indigenous legal issues. Children's Literature (2001) won the two main Irene will commence work on a post-doctoral international prizes for scholarly writing on research fellowship with the University of Sydney children's literature, the International Research in July 2005. Society in Children's Literature Award, and the Children's Literature Association Book Award. Alastair Bonnett is professor of social geography She is now writing a comparative study of settler at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He society children's literature.

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