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What Do You Have There? Carrying Race in My Shopping Basket

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Understanding Racism in a Post-Racial World

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By considering the supermarket as a racial space, the chapter draws attention to consumption spaces as sites for daily mundane activities that are often unreflective and routine, and as such are pregnant indicators of how interactions between different types of bodies and people become embedded in everyday spaces. While this is useful in understanding contemporary everyday racisms, it more importantly highlights how the effect produced in an encounter can still be racialised regardless of intent and proximity. Racism is not overcome merely by having bodies in close proximity; it requires a shift in how bodies interact in spaces.

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    Woolworths launches reconciliation action plan, press release available at https://www.woolworthsgroup.com.au/icms_docs/185448_Woolworths_launches_Reconciliation_Action_Plan_to_advance_opportunities_for_Indigenous_Australians.pdf (last accessed 28 October 2018).

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    Woolworths Code of Conduct Manual, available at https://www.woolworthsgroup.com.au/content/Document/Dec%202016_Code%20of%20Conduct.pdf (last accessed 28 October 2018). Please note that the document is updated constantly, so wording may not match.

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    Welcome to Australia’s fresh food people, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duq9kw_J3Mg (last accessed 28 October 2018).

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    Bringing Christmas together with Jamie Oliver, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhyTgjsi9Lc (last accessed 28 October 2018).

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    Social cohesion undermined by everyday racism in neighbourhoods and shops. State News Service, 29 Oct. 2014.

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Kamaloni, S. (2019). What Do You Have There? Carrying Race in My Shopping Basket. In: Understanding Racism in a Post-Racial World. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10985-1_6

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