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Blackness as a Defining Identity : Mediated Representations and the Lived Experiences of African Immigrants in Australia / by Runyararo Sihle Chivaura

Publisher	(Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer)
Year	2020
Edition	1st ed. 2020.
Authors	*Chivaura, Runyararo Sihle author SpringerLink (Online service)

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00187239		Springer Social Sciences eBooks (電子ブック)	9789813295438

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	XXI, 181 p. 22 illus., 16 illus. in color : online resource
Notes	Introduction White Noise: Internal monologues of a multicultural subject -- Chapter1. Setting the scene -- Chapter 2. Why Cultural Studies? Why Stuart Hall? -- Chapter 3. Research into Individuals of African Origin in Australia -- Chapter 4. Discourse and Race: Mediated Representation of African Immigrants in Australian Media -- Chapter 5. Semiotic Violence: The Language of Moral Panics and Invisibility -- Chapter 6. Race and Politics: Have we ever been Postcolonial? -- Chapter 7.Values Placed on Culture, Race and Ethnicity: Situating Oneself within the Discourse -- Chapter 8.Hard Data: Voices of Africans in Australia -- Conclusion: After the Dust Settles 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 HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9543-8
Subjects	LCSH:Communication LCSH:Culture—Study and teaching LCSH:Emigration and immigration LCSH:Culture LCSH:Australasia FREE:Media and Communication FREE:Cultural Studies FREE:Human Migration FREE:Australasian Culture FREE:Global and International Culture
Classification	LCC:P87-96 DC23:302.2
ID	8000066939
ISBN	9789813295438