The Final Quarter - Challenging White Privilege

Retired AFL star Adam Goodes is known to many for his resilient journey in the face of detrimental treatment by AFL spectators and the media beginning in 2013.

In this lesson, students consider audience responses to challenging topics. Texts about racial identity build students’ understanding of how the topics of race, racism and privilege may be experienced by some audiences who come from the dominant white culture. They are introduced to the concept of white fragility through examples shown in The Final Quarter. Through further textual analysis, students reflect upon how speaker and audience identities, as well as word choices, may influence audience response. Finally, students synthesise what they have learnt to consider how conversations about race are conducted in Australia, with thought to the ethical and social implications.