I have very little knowledge about contemporary Australian racism, so I couldn't really compare. I know historically it's quite bad, but based on Jemisin's article (and some followup googling) I definitely agree that —whatever state it's in— Australia is making a kind of progress that the States won't see for a very long time. The way things've been going, latin@s have been gaining more mainstream acceptance than blacks; and there's no reason to expect that to change in the near future. And the severe consolidation of wealth over the last couple decades disproportionately distances blacks from economic equality (e.g., cf., any article on how few blacks there are in STEM fields even as compared to other racial minorities like Indians and asians). But the popular dogma is that racism is no longer an issue here and that POC should just "get over it"... *sigh*
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Date: 2013-08-03 01:02 am (UTC)I have very little knowledge about contemporary Australian racism, so I couldn't really compare. I know historically it's quite bad, but based on Jemisin's article (and some followup googling) I definitely agree that —whatever state it's in— Australia is making a kind of progress that the States won't see for a very long time. The way things've been going, latin@s have been gaining more mainstream acceptance than blacks; and there's no reason to expect that to change in the near future. And the severe consolidation of wealth over the last couple decades disproportionately distances blacks from economic equality (e.g., cf., any article on how few blacks there are in STEM fields even as compared to other racial minorities like Indians and asians). But the popular dogma is that racism is no longer an issue here and that POC should just "get over it"... *sigh*