Extract from white nation: fantasies of white supremacy in a multicultural society

Both MairiAnne Mackenzie and Alastair Davidson (this issue) comment on the relationship between immigration and multiculturalism. The following extract is reprinted with permission from the last seven pages for Ghassan Hage’s new book, White Nation. It draws the two phenomena together and argues that public concern about immigration stems from the distress that ‘White Australians’ feel in the face of their declining power in multicultural Australia. The term ‘White’ stands for people of European origin while the term ‘Third World-looking’ people denotes most of the rest. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s