TY - GEN N2 - This book explores the lived experiences of African immigrants in Australia, and the way they are represented in the media. By delving into the group's everyday lives, the book exposes the roles that media and social perceptions play in the production and regulation of diasporic identities. Rather than being presented as objects of mediated representations, this book positions African immigrants in Australia as empowered subjects. The book employs inclusive research methods that make African immigrants active participants in the research, rather than passive objects. This is achieved through an expanded demographic study, a snapshot survey, and by taking a closer look at the lives of Africans in Australia through digital oral histories. This approach allows the group to have a say on how they feel they are positioned in society, on what space they are offered, and on how this affects their lives. DO - 10.1007/978-981-32-9543-8 DO - doi AB - This book explores the lived experiences of African immigrants in Australia, and the way they are represented in the media. By delving into the group's everyday lives, the book exposes the roles that media and social perceptions play in the production and regulation of diasporic identities. Rather than being presented as objects of mediated representations, this book positions African immigrants in Australia as empowered subjects. The book employs inclusive research methods that make African immigrants active participants in the research, rather than passive objects. This is achieved through an expanded demographic study, a snapshot survey, and by taking a closer look at the lives of Africans in Australia through digital oral histories. This approach allows the group to have a say on how they feel they are positioned in society, on what space they are offered, and on how this affects their lives. T1 - Blackness as a defining identity :mediated representations and the lived experiences of African immigrants in Australia / AU - Chivaura, Runyararo Sihle, CN - DU122.A35 ID - 922660 KW - Africans KW - Immigrants in mass media. SN - 9789813295438 SN - 9813295430 TI - Blackness as a defining identity :mediated representations and the lived experiences of African immigrants in Australia / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-32-9543-8 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-32-9543-8 ER -