Challenging Everyday Racisms in Place Project

• Zubaidah Mohamed Shaburdin

  Dr

  zubaidah.mohamed@unimelb.edu.au
  
• Lisa Bourke

  Professor

  bourke@unimelb.edu.au
  

Project Details

The Challenging Everyday Racisms in Place Project aimed to demonstrate how everyday racism works to reproduce and reinforce white ways of doing and being in our local communities. The project gathered the perspectives of 20 People of Colour living in Shepparton who spoke about their experiences of everyday racisms and the impacts of it in their everyday lives, be it at the workplace, school, accessing healthcare and in public spaces. From the interviews, three short videos were developed with stories derived from the experiences of participants. The videos seek to raise awareness of the ways in which People of Colour navigate places and spaces where they are othered and in/excluded.

Previous research on rural residents’ experiences of in/exclusion when accessing healthcare identified stories of racism for People of Colour living in the Shepparton region.  This study employed four community researchers who, along with the lead researcher, conducted interviews with their networks about experiences of everyday racisms. From the 20 interviews, 82 experiences of everyday racisms were shared and some of these were directly shared in anti-racism videos. The development of the anti-racism videos was overseen by an advisory group made up of local People of Colour, advocates and academics whom are subject matter experts and provided guidance in the development of the videos.

Researchers

Dr Zubaidah Mohamed Shaburdin

Prof Lisa Bourke

Ms Samaha Elnour

Mr Herny Ifopo

Ms Gabrielle Vella

Ms Betul Tuna

Collaborators

Dr Odette Kelada

Ms Mellisa Silaga

Ms Seema Abdulla

Dr Jacqueline Nelson

Funding

The research was funded by the University of Melbourne’s Anti-Racism Hallmark Research Initiative.