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Africans have become firmly part of Australian society. They account for an increasing proportion of its total population. This article draws from empirical data generated via in-depth semi-structured interviews with 30 participants in South East Queensland. The findings suggest that the discursive constructions of Africans in everyday language and social relations in Australia work to construct their lived reality of being; becoming and being positioned as a racialized subject, leading to objectification, marginalization, exclusion and disadvantage. The article advocates for systemic changes that will end the problems of everyday racism at both state and national levels, and for the introduction of programs that will encourage the inclusion, belonging and full participation of visible and ethnically marked immigrants to Australia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article looks at inscriptions of whiteness in selected white Zimbabwean narratives. Through a reading of Andrea Eames'The Cry of the Go-Away Bird(2011), Alexandra Fuller'sDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight(2003) and John Eppel'sAbsent: the English Teacher(2009), the argument proposes that white Zimbabwean narratives situate whiteness within the context of change and marginality in Zimbabwe. The narratives deal with experiences of change and apprehensions of lived reality marked by the transfer of power from white minority to black majority rule. Our reading ofThe Cry of the Go-Away Birdexamines how whiteness in the postcolonial Zimbabwean state is perceived through an outsider's gaze, resulting in a kind of double consciousness within the (racialized, white) subject of the gaze. It is argued that the text depicts whites as torn between two unreconciled streams of possibility, reinforcing their sense of alienation. Fuller'sDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonightrepresents whiteness as a thoroughly ephemeral experience. The meaning of whiteness is mediated through perpetual physical movement as whites travel from one point to another. Eppel'sAbsent: the English Teacheraffords a rethinking of whiteness as an unstable form of identity contingent on historical and political factors. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]