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My Island Home: Indigenous Festivals And Archipelago Australia, Lisa Slater Jan 2007

My Island Home: Indigenous Festivals And Archipelago Australia, Lisa Slater

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

It’s raining in sunny Queensland. Rain wasn’t on my mind when I left wintry Sydney; then I was wondering: why so many Indigenous festivals now? What are they doing? Where did they come from? To what effect? Having fled a chilly Sydney mid-morning, I arrive Friday afternoon (Day 1 of the Dreaming Festival): after an easy one-hour flight to Brisbane, a clean and surprisingly on-time train to Caboolture, a local school bus toWoodford, I shareWoodford’s only taxi to the festival grounds.My companions are a motley crew; only later do I appreciate that they are somewhat representative of the festivalgoer. John …


Over My Dead Body: Multicultural Social Cohesion In Veronica Mars, Debra Dudek Jan 2007

Over My Dead Body: Multicultural Social Cohesion In Veronica Mars, Debra Dudek

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

This paper argues that Veronica Mars foregrounds the notion that multiculturalism is a "field of accumulating whiteness," to borrow Ghassan Hage's phrase, and that multicultural cohesion exists primarily when Brown and Black bodies gain cultural and symbolic capital by accumulating Whiteness.