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Reclaiming racial dignity: An ethnographic study of how African youth in Australia use social media to visibilise anti?Black racism
The Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol.58(2), pp.360-380
06/2023
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Abstract
The #BlackLivesMatter Movement has amplified the role of social media in visibilising anti-Black violence. Drawing on the narratives and expertise of those who have experienced anti-Black racism, this paper employs the theoretical concept of racial dignity to highlight how young African Australians participate in racial discourse on social media. The findings of this paper demonstrate that social media is a significant site where Black African youth reclaim racial dignity through: 1) reversing the white gaze; 2) recognising and calling out anti-blackness; and 3) cultivating and engaging in communities of healing and belonging. Through these digital practices, Black African youth in Australia foster racial agency that promotes positive self-recognition, racial resilience and racial dignity. We argue, therefore, that social media offer Black African young people in Australia spaces to engage in positive expressions of Afro-blackness and challenge anti-blackness in ways that are safer to them than in physical, offline settings in white contexts.
Details
- Title
- Reclaiming racial dignity: An ethnographic study of how African youth in Australia use social media to visibilise anti?Black racism
- Creators
- Kathomi Gatwiri - Southern Cross UniversityClaire Moran - Monash University
- Publication Details
- The Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol.58(2), pp.360-380
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Grant note
- Open access publishing facilitated by Southern Cross University, as part of the Wiley - Southern Cross University agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians.
- Identifiers
- 991013036384902368
- Copyright
- This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.© 2022 The Authors. Australian Journal of Social Issues published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Australian Social Policy Association.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health; Centre for Children and Young People; Social Work
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article