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‘Apes,’ ‘monkeys,’ and vibranium: Antiblackness moves in Australian classrooms

2023; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 57; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10665684.2023.2187896

1547-3457

Ligia López López,

Global Education and Multiculturalism

Racism against Black people, otherwise known as antiblack racism or antiblackness, exists in Australian classrooms and in the Australian curriculum. Contrary to the belief that antiblack racism exists offshore in distant lands away from celebrated multicultural Australia, this article demonstrates how antiblackness lives within the nation. Despite antiblack racism's strong hold, young people in classrooms are detecting it, suspending it, and producing antiracist literacies and Black futurities through multidisciplinary questioning. Drawing from public data, existing empirical research, and primary classroom research in Australia, this article traces how antiblack racism moves in the public space, the school classrooms, and the official curriculum. It also demonstrates how both in the margins and at the center of the curriculum, young people, aided by popular moving images of Afrofuturism, are able to defy the "ontologically lacking" logics that order antiblack literacy. The analysis follows the conceptual guidance of Caribbean thinker Sylvia Wynter.