ABSTRACT
People needs a critical education for critical times if schools are expected to weather at least the next ten years. Education is located in the articulation of antagonisms that are decidedly complex. A collection like this chapter shows how the Australian context, although admittedly unique, shares concerns the rest of the world about what education is up against in a new order. For this collection of anti-racist scholars, the role of whiteness and Whites cannot be underestimated. Perceiving their entitlements threatened, Whites charge that racial minorities have unfairly taken their resources through government sponsored programs like affirmative action. Whites could call this trend 'racist', but many are smarter than that. A species of racism, feminised racism, speaks to white women's injured status as gendered subjects in race relations, who at once suffer from patriarchy and are elevated by racism. White women are part of the heterogeneity of the new Right.
