Nineteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

In the Australian education context, a growing body of Critical Race Theory (CRT) work has interrogated the political dimensions of equity for Indigenous student populations; however, much less progress has been made with other racial minorities. Specifically, the voices of migrant teachers from Asian backgrounds like myself, who have become an increasingly important stakeholder in Australian education, are a rarity in the academy. On this basis, in this paper I foreground a racial solidarity against Whiteness by using Asian CRT to present an autoethnographic account of a migrant ‘Asian’ Australian teacher’s attempts at addressing racial inequity through reorienting race talk in a White Australian high school.