ABSTRACT
This article explores the ways in which representations of Blackness in Australia are quite specific to that country. Antipodean images of Black Australians are limited in particular ways; influenced by traditions, and forming genealogies quite peculiar to that country. In particular, histories of Blackness in Australia are quite distinct from those in America. The
generic alignments, the ‘available discourses’ on Blackness (Muecke, 1982) form quite distinct topographies in the two continents.
