This timely and thorough analysis addresses a growing discourse that serves the interest of white privilege in Australia since British colonisation. Although Australia is increasingly multicultural, politics and media combine to promote the idea of white victimhood, from right-wing extremist views into the mainstream. Drawing on empirical evidence, Sharples and Blair move beyond critique to offer constructive solutions.

Linda Briskman, Western Sydney University, Australia

This book offers an exceptionally readable overview of the causes, history, and ongoing processes that maintain white supremacy in Australia and underpin claims of 'anti-white racism.' It will be of immense interest to both Australian and international readers because it is able to balance accessibility with complexity, evidence with explanation, fascinating examples, and canny analysis of causes. It lays bare the situation Australia needs to reckon with and makes a compelling and hopeful case for racial literacy.

Lucy Nicholas, Western Sydney University, Australia

Provocative, rigorous, and unapologetically critical, this book dismantles the fiction of 'anti-white racism' and exposes how narratives of white victimhood operate as forms of denial that obscure enduring structures of power and privilege. Grounded in empirical evidence and attuned to Australia's settler-colonial context, Sharples and Blair offer a timely and necessary intervention into debates on race and racialisation, revealing how grievance can be politicised and mobilised to sustain entrenched inequality while masquerading as its critique.

Fethi Mansouri, Deakin University, Australia