Resources to Unlearn Racism

Reports and Information

COVID-19 Racism – Survey by Asian Alliance and Diversity Australia

Media Diversity Australia Report 

Mapping Social Cohesion Report 2019

Speak out against racism (SOAR)

ATN Social Commentary & Racism 2019 

Reporting Racism – Information for people who want to report racial discrimination in Australia

Books

A non-exhaustive list of recommended non-fiction books for adults on topics of race, racism, multiculturalism, and cultural diversity:

• Courageous conversations about race, by Glenn E. Singleton & Curtis Linton (Corwin Press)
• Viral hate – containing its spread on the internet, by Abraham H. Foxman & Christopher Wolf (Palgrave Macmillan)
• I’m not racist but… 40 years of the racial discrimination act, by Tim Soutphommasane (NewSouth)
• Auschwitz to Australia, by Olga Horak (Snap Wynyard)
• Cyber Racism and Community Resilience: Strategies for Combating Online Race Hate, by Ana-Maria Bliuc, Andrew Oboler, Andrew Jakubowicz, Gail Mason, Karen Connelly, Kevin Dunn, Nasya Bahfen, Rosalie Atie, Yin Paradies (Springer International Publishing)
• Driven by difference – how great companies fuel innovation through diversity, by David Livermore (Amacom – American Management Association)
• The Hate Race, by Maxine Beneba Clarke (Allen & Unwin)
• Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race, by Reni Eddo-Lodge (Bloomsbury Publishing)
• Between the world and me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau)
• I shall not hate: A Gaza doctor’s journey on the road to peace and human dignity, by Izzeldin Abuelaish (Walker)
• Don’t go back to where you came from, by Tim Soutphommasane (NewSouth)
• Beyond white guilt, by Sarah Maddison (Allen & Unwin)
• The complete Maus, by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon Books)
• Autobiography of a recovering skinhead, by Frank Meeink (Hawthorne Books)
• That Fry Boy, by James Fry (New Holland Publishers)
• For those who’ve come across the seas, edited by Andrew Jakubowicz & Christina Ho (Anthem Press)

Other resources

• All Together Now
• AHRC: Quick Guide to Australian Discrimination Laws
• AHRC: Racial Discrimination – know your rights factsheet
• AHRC: Good practice good business – Racial Discrimination factsheet
• AHRC: A step-by-step guide to preventing discrimination in recruitment
• Australian Government Business: refusing service
• Challenging Racism Project
• Colour Code
• Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – Concluding observations on the eighteenth to twentieth periodic reports of Australia
• Democracy In Colour
• Fair Work Ombudsman fact sheet on workplace discrimination
• IndigenousX
• Youth Law Australia (YLA), Discrimination
• Museum of Freedom and Tolerance Western Australia
• Racism. It Stops With Me
• Racism No Way
• Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on his mission to Australia
• Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples on her visit to Australia
• The Law Handbook (NSW), Chapter 17: Discrimination