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• The Racial Politics of Multicultural Australia – Ghassan Hage (Sweatshop) The publication of The Racial Politics of Multicultural Australia by the Sweatshop Literacy Movement represents a significant collaboration.
• Hage is an Australian Arab immigrant, whose forebears came to Australia in the 1930s and settled in Lithgow, where they established a clothing factory.
• Sweatshop is an urban political project created in western Sydney by a younger generation of Australians from Arab and other immigrant and refugee backgrounds.
• While the republished works were mainly written early in the second generation, their continuing relevance is both salutary and disturbing.

What is a White person?

• For Hage, it is a self-referential category into which White people put themselves.
• That is, people who think of themselves as White are White people.
• Nor is it racial, in the older sense of race as a bio-social category, with shared DNA clusters associated with territories of origin.
• Rather, it is a “fantasy position” born out of colonial history, one that is essentially European.
• It is imagined to be rooted in the stories of north-western Europe: stories of empires won and an Enlightenment project sustained.

White Nation

• In White Nation, Hage draws on two methods: one provided by his studies with Pierre Bourdieu in Paris, and another developed in the social anthropological space of ethnography and listening.
• White people, suggests one letter, are more immediately seen as Australian (part of the dominant cultural group), even when they have only recently arrived.
• As Hage notes, White multiculturalism evades any commitment that “we are a multicultural community in all our diversity”.
• Moreover, argues Hage, these views, be they for or against multiculturalism, all stand upon an edifice that assumes White superiority – and fantasises Australia as a place in which White superiority “should reign supreme”.

The politics of White decline

• In the decades since White Nation first appeared, the politics of White decline have become an increasingly mainstream concern.
• This narrative played a key part in the anti-vaxx movement, despite the multicultural makeup of that movement.
• Both played a role in White Nation – but they foreground Against Paranoid Nationalism.

Worrying and caring

• In Against Paranoid Nationalism, Hage proposes that two opposing stances – worrying and caring – establish the parameters of the narcissism and paranoia engulfing Australia.
• Worrying about the nation’s present and future breeds an intense fear and hatred of outsiders who might threaten the interests of those who claim a unique right to worry.
• In the process, people become less willing to hope for a more caring future.
• We are all the better off for Hage’s eclectic, systematic, imaginative and penetrating assessment of the human condition in this time of late imperialism.

• July 30, 2022 - The Bandit Project , a DeFi initiative allowing users to earn passive income while generating NFTs, announced it will hold a public presale for its $BANDIT token on August 11 at 11 a.m. EST.
• The Bandit Project enables users to become part owners of a platform and share the revenue when they provide liquidity to the Bank.
• The Bandit Project may pay out a maximum of 15,000 BANDIT tokens every time it retires an NFT.
• The public presale for the $BANDIT token is the next big step in the projects development.

• The 2022 USBC National Conference "Learning, Connecting & Leading" was powered by Google, and held at the Marriott Marquis.
• In addition to bringing Chamber leaders together and highlighting USBC's key programs, it was also a time to make big announcements.
• Friday, kicked off Advocacy Day with an Armchair Conversation with U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, moderated by USBC President Ron Busby Sr.
• The U.S. Black Chambers (USBC) is the voice of Black business owners and a top advocate for resources and policies that impact Black business owners.

• AUSTIN, Minn., Nov. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The makers of HORMEL BLACK LABEL Bacon, a leader in breakfast meats in America, announced today the launch of HORMEL BLACK LABEL Bacon Wrapping Paper.
• The limited-edition wrapping paper features the joyous scent of HORMEL BLACK LABEL Bacon baked into every sheet and a mouth-watering decorative bacon weave pattern.
• "We believe that everything is better when it's wrapped in HORMEL BLACK LABEL bacon," said Nick Schweitzer, senior brand manager for HORMEL BLACK LABEL Bacon.
• HORMEL BLACK LABEL Bacon Wrapping Paper is the latest in a series of technology-led innovations that are designed to enhance how fans experience and enjoy HORMEL BLACK LABEL Bacon.