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Uncommodified Blackness

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This chapter locates the book within the Africana Studies tradition. One of the challenges facing African scholars in Australia and New Zealand is the lack of institutional power to forge and develop intellectual paradigms based on the lived experience of African people. What Rabaka (2010) terms ‘epistemic apartheid’ compels African scholars to utilise Western liberal discourses such as multiculturalism, diversity, the resettlement discourse and the integration paradigm to research issues faced by Africans in Australia and New Zealand. This chapter argues that by employing the Africana Studies framework, and through the introduction of the theoretical concept of the uncommodified blackness image, this book disrupts the prevailing academic refugee discourse and the migration studies which often locate Africans from a refugee background within a policy-oriented discourse.

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Majavu, M. (2017). Conceptual Issues. In: Uncommodified Blackness. Mapping Global Racisms. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51325-6_2

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