This book examines the experience of race and ethnicity in Australia
after the withering away of official multiculturalism. The first chapter
looks at the formation of the Australian state, the role that
multiculturalism has played, and the impact of neoliberal ideas. The
second chapter takes nightclubbing in the city of Perth during the
1980s, the peak period for official multiculturalism, to exemplify how
diversity and exclusion functioned in everyday life. The third chapter
considers the imbrication of Christianity in the Australian
socio-cultural order and its impact on the limits of multiculturalism
with particular concentration on Islam and the Australian Muslim
experience. Subsequent chapters discuss the exclusionary experience of
various groups identified as non-white through the lens of films,
popular music and television programs.