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Represents the most inclusive and largest study of Africans living in Australia
Employs inclusive research methods that make African immigrants active participants in the research
Includes the detailed, digital oral testimonies of research participants
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book explores the lived experiences of African immigrants in Australia, and the way they are represented in the media. By delving into the group’s everyday lives, the book exposes the roles that media and social perceptions play in the production and regulation of diasporic identities. Rather than being presented as objects of mediated representations, this book positions African immigrants in Australia as empowered subjects.
The book employs inclusive research methods that make African immigrants active participants in the research, rather than passive objects. This is achieved through an expanded demographic study, a snapshot survey, and by taking a closer look at the lives of Africans in Australia through digital oral histories. This approach allows the group to have a say on how they feel they are positioned in society, on what space they are offered, and on how this affects their lives.
Keywords
- Representations of African-Australians in Australian Media
- Africans living in Australia
- Media representations of Africans in Australia
- Political discourse surrounding African Immigrants
- Social discourse surrounding Africans in Australia
- African immigrants in Australia
- Race and belonging in Australia
- African economic contribution to Australia Society
- African immigrants and the media
- Race relations in Australia
- Australian Discursive Research
- African communities in Australia
- Postcolonialism
- Surveying African demographics in Australia
- African identities
- Voices of Africans in Australia
- Migration and ethnicity
Authors and Affiliations
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Living Cultural Studies and Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Runyararo Sihle Chivaura
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Blackness as a Defining Identity
Book Subtitle: Mediated Representations and the Lived Experiences of African Immigrants in Australia
Authors: Runyararo Sihle Chivaura
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9543-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9542-1Published: 11 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9545-2Published: 11 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-32-9543-8Published: 30 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 181
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Migration, Australasian Culture, Global/International Culture