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'For many African-diaspora people in Australia, belonging means masking yourself. To fit in is to curate one’s Africanness and one’s blackness. You teach yourself to see-saw between the splitting identities of who Australia needs you to be, and who you really are. You just never simply are.' (Introduction)
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Growing Up African in Australia : Racism, Resilience and the Right to Belong
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