Abstract
This chapter engages and analyses the Australian data. The discussion in this chapter is based on four themes, ‘being a refugee’, ‘personal encounters with racism and vicarious experience of racism’, ‘racist bullying’ and ‘denial of racism’. The analysis of data indicates that Africans in Australia are infrahumanised through a racist discourse that portrays Africans as threatening, dirty and disturbing and therefore have to be avoided on public transportation or controlled by the authorities. Furthermore, this dehumanising discourse cast African males, in particular, as being overly physical and out of control, prone to violence, unruly and inherently dangerous and therefore “in need of civilizing” (Ferber 2007, cited in Leonard, After Artest: The NBA and the assault on Blackness. New York: State University of New York Press, 2012).
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