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The Whiteness Regimes of Multiculturalism in Australia

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This chapter continues with the analyses of the Australian data. The discussion in this chapter is structured around four themes, namely, ‘African masculinity’, ‘neighbourhood life’, ‘employment and workplace issues’ and ‘being Australian’. The discussion is framed around the critique of multiculturalism and thus argues that Australia’s multiculturalism is a liberal tool that ultimate serves to preserve white normativity (Ward 2008). It argues that the analysis of data suggests that Australia’s multiculturalism encourages those who are considered white to live in a racial fantasyland shaped by white mythologies of ‘mateship’ and ‘fair go’ and invented Africans (Mills 1997)—also known as uncommodified blackness. The invented Africans are then presented to the public by the authorities (the likes of Kevin Andrews) as failures at integration.

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Majavu, M. (2017). The Whiteness Regimes of Multiculturalism in Australia. In: Uncommodified Blackness. Mapping Global Racisms. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51325-6_5

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