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Since the mid-1980s, Australia has resettled thousands of African refugees. This paper focuses on the racialization of youth violence and the damage it sustains on refugee-background young Africans. The discussion proceeds in two interrelated stages. In the first stage, to understand the representation of African youth in the public sphere, the paper reviews the relevant literature, media headlines, and political commentaries. In so doing, it establishes that the continual framing of African youth as dangerous and violence-prone by conservative politicians and media outlets amounts to racial moral panic. In the second stage, guided by narrative research methodology, a small group of young Africans were invited to reflect on their everyday life under racialized frames. Accounts of the youth are presented under four themes: the presumption of guilt, emotional ill-being, opportunity hoarding, and the permanence of otherness. It is argued that, if left unaddressed, the racialization of youth violence can diminish the integration outcomes of African youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper describes and analyses the issues that impacted on pre service Primary Education students' engagement with the subject 'Aboriginal¹ culture and history' at a rural university. The paper identifies how issues including pioneer identity and local 'conversations' about race related strongly to this particular rural context. It names and demonstrates 'ethical positioning' as an effective pedagogy in shifting often unrecognised racist values and attitudes, thus enabling students to move beyond ethnocentricity. The paper highlights the openness of the students to becoming transformative educators when issues of identity, racism and its ethical implications are reflected on overtly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Indigenous people are the most disadvantaged population within Australia. The Bachelor of Nursing program at a large university in Western Sydney embedded Indigenous health into the undergraduate teaching program. This paper reviews the negative responses received towards course content on evaluation of the Indigenous health unit and explores the predictors for the negative attitudes towards Indigenous Australians. Two surveys were used (baseline and follow-up) to: 1. Determine the main predictors for negative attitudes towards Indigenous people and; 2. Explore students' perceptions of the educational quality of the Indigenous health unit. The surveys allowed collection of socio-demographic, academic data and included the 18 item ‘Attitude Toward Indigenous Australians’ (ATIA) scale and open-ended responses. Students who were: 1. Overseas born, 2. Enrolment category: International student and; 3. Whose primary source of information about Indigenous Australians were the media and school were significantly more likely to have higher negative attitudes towards Indigenous Australians. Qualitative data revealed some unfavourable comments dismissing the value and educational quality of the content within the Indigenous health unit. Community engagement is paramount to enhancing the student experience. Movement away from media driven ‘hype’ to an educated perspective is necessary to create an accurate portrayal of the Indigenous community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent times the Australian Government has become increasingly concerned with the challenge to the dominant culture by humanitarian immigrants entering the country. As a part of a complex strategy, emerging from the events of 9/11 and the perceived changing face of multiculturalism in Australia, the Attorney-General Robert McClelland announced in 2011 more than $1.1 million in funding for projects to mentor and support young people to stay disengaged from intolerant and radical ideologies. The grants have been awarded under the Building Community Resilience - Youth Mentoring Grants Program (2010) and are designed to promote a tolerant, safe and inclusive society. As a result of that funding a northern suburbs Council Youth Services in Victoria established a project to work with young people 12 - 17 years who have been identified by Victoria Police, the education sector, and welfare agencies as individuals who have or are exhibiting signs of fostering hatred and intolerance either through the spoken word, written messages, graffiti, the media or the internet that live within this local government area. This paper discusses the results of the evaluation of a multicultural leadership program that was delivered using an adult learning framework in which 16 young people attended and how such programs can continue to build the capacity of communities to build scaffolds of support that ensure the inclusion of young people and not their marginalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores racism within Australian women's magazines. By centring the analysis around a selection of mainstream magazines during a single calendar month, I endeavour to illustrate the extent to which racism is embedded within both the advertising and the editorial content. Of particular interest is the practice of skin-whitening, whereby a combination of makeup, studio lighting and airbrushing techniques render the model `s skin a lighter shade. As I demonstrate, it is a practice commonly employed in the marketing of magazines and beauty products, presumably because white skin is a more acceptable (and therefore more saleable) commodity. Using white skin as its theme, the paper is couched within a discussion centring around the languages of whiteness and racism, and their intersection with the modern portrayal of beauty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the discourse on Filipina brides in Australia. Although the Filipina brides discourse awakens white Australian fears about the arrival of their "other," it also produces coterminous boundaries which reaffirm the contemporary structure of Australian society. The discourse constitutes differences between white Australian women and Filipina-Australians through a representation of the Australian landscape west of the Great Dividing Range as a physically harsh land, especially for white Australian women, many of whom "question why their lives should be a sacrifice" when their city sisters have it so much easier. When they arrive in Australia, Filipinas are "sheets of blank paper" to the majority of Australians, waiting to be inscribed. But once they are in Australia, the discourse inscribes these women's bodies through a network of cultural stereotyping, sexism and racism, which is then informed by those same discursive Filipina-Australians it inscribed in the first place. In the process, the operation of knowledge and power in the discourse marginalizes other knowledge about Filipina-Australians while producing that very reality it claims to be describing.