Uncommodified Blackness

This book is a study of the lived experience of African men in Australia and New Zealand. The author employs a relational account of racism which foregrounds how the colonial shaped the contemporary, with the settler states of contemporary Australia and New Zealand having been moulded by their colonial histories. Uncommodified Blackness examines the changing racial conditions in Australia and New Zealand, inspired by the view that as racial conditions change globally, prevailing racial modalities in these two countries must be reexamined and theory must be developed or revised as appropriate.

Students and scholars across a range of social science disciplines will find this book of interest, particularly those with an interest in refugees, immigration, race and masculinity.

Provides a new theoretical concept with which to understand racism and xenophobia directed at Africans Offers important insights into the experience of being African and male in Australia and New Zealand Addresses the question of African-ness: a question that has not been well examined in this part of the world

Auteur
Mandisi Majavu works on the critical theorization of anti-black racism. He was born and grew up in apartheid South Africa. He has been researching and writing about race and racism for the past fifteen years.

Contenu

1. Introduction and Conceptual Issues.- 2. The genealogy and the discursive themes of the uncommodified blackness image.- 3. The wizardry of whiteness in OZ.- 4. The whiteness regimes of multiculturalism in Australia.- 5. Technologies of the 'Kiwi' selves.- 6. Africans on an 'English farm in the Pacific'.- 7. Conclusion.