African Australians

When you look up black studies, it is defined as an interdisciplinary academic field that primarily direct quotes primarily focuses on the study of the history, culture, politics and the peoples of the black American diaspora and Africa.

That includes scholars of African-American, Afro-Canadian, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latino, Afro-European, Afro-Asian, Afro-Australian, African literature, history, politics, religion, as well as scholars from other disciplines, including sociology.

anthropology cultural studies psychology education and many other disciplines within the humanities and social sciences this field uses a variety of research methods and so i think it's important because and i will just say i'm a black studies major right and and when people were responding to this thread.

I was like, hi, Black Studies major here.

I want to be careful also not to paint Australia as an evil country.

I don't think the things that are happening in Australia, particularly towards African Australians, are uniquely Australian evil.

I think you just get a particular form of global anti-blackness in the version it occupies in Australia.

Because I want to say that because I'm quite grateful, actually, to have come to Australia.

But the 99% of South Sudanese Australians, they are hardworking.

People who came here in the 20s, you know, the 2000s, who are now buying homes, who are starting businesses, who will travel across this huge continent to other places to get a job, right? So that whole story is not told.

the whole story of just the average hardworking people, but also what has African Australians be able to provide to this nation? You look at the Australian football team, I think you call it soccer in the United States, and it has people of African descent in it, representing Australia and wearing the blue and gold, I think.

So for me, I am not...

So it's a bit loaded in that.

So my research looks at risks and protective factors for high harm offending among African Australian young people.

But in reality, what my research is about is finding ways to help young people before they even get in contact with the justice system, find a pathway that helps them build a meaningful life here in Australia.

Why do you think that pathway has been difficult for some of the young people?

So here is the interview

interviewSo you previously said on the Inherited podcast that marginalized communities, particularly African communities, often don't have control over their, um, own narratives, and that they can be used as political footballs, um, particularly through the African gangs narrative.

Um, how do you think African communities can take control of their own stories and challenge the way that they're represented?

Yeah.

It is something the community's grappling with now.

... and how the media plays such a big role in what stories they choose to tell and what narratives they choose to perpetuate as well.

So pointing out the fact that we need more positive and other types of coverage of multicultural communities is a really good point.

Yeah, 100%, and it could be something as small as if, let's just say, a African person was to now compete in the Olympics.

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in Australia, there's other mixed kids at the time, but we don't have, we don't have African Australian-

Mm-hmm

... well we didn't really have, like, a large African Australian, like, culture.

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African Australians.

We did lots of content around different types of Asian Australians.

Like, the interesting insight was that at that time, like, a third of millennials in Australia were of Asian ancestry, and so but very underrepresented in media, so we hired lots of people who were more representative, but we also, um, did a lot of con- growing up Indian in Australia or whatever, lots of that kind of content, and more s- a lot more serious stuff as well.

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