ABSTRACT Australian multiculturalism emerged as national policy in the 1970s following contentious immigration policies designed to limit the entry of non-white immigrants. Multiculturalism frames articulations of national belonging in terms of broad moral implications and the immigration policy from which such implications stem. Paradoxically, discourses central to the multicultural ideal, such as integration and tolerance, can act to limit people’s experience of social belonging by providing scope for demonstrations of Anglo-Celtic heritage as a form of symbolic capital. I explore the ways non-white young people with refugee backgrounds interpret whiteness in relation to multiculturalism and negotiate their sense of belonging in Brisbane, Australia. I discuss the link between whiteness and multiculturalism from the perspectives of these young people and demonstrate the various ways in which they interpret Australian national belonging as intrinsically linked to skin color. By alternately highlighting and evading their own racialized sense of themselves, young people exhibit a multiplicity of possibilities for belonging and respond to the political context of their own lives.

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“我看到的人是白人，但我太黑了”：澳大利亚的白人与多元文化归属感

摘要 澳大利亚的多元文化主义在 1970 年代随着旨在限制非白人移民入境的有争议的移民政策而成为国家政策。多元文化主义根据广泛的道德含义和产生这种含义的移民政策来构建民族归属感的表达。矛盾的是，多元文化理想的核心话语，例如融合和宽容，可以通过提供展示盎格鲁-凯尔特遗产作为象征资本形式的空间来限制人们的社会归属感。我探索了具有难民背景的非白人年轻人如何解释与多元文化相关的白人，并协商他们在澳大利亚布里斯班的归属感。我从这些年轻人的角度讨论了白人与多元文化之间的联系，并展示了他们将澳大利亚民族归属感解释为与肤色有着内在联系的各种方式。通过交替强调和回避他们自己的种族化意识，年轻人展示了归属感的多种可能性，并对他们自己生活的政治背景做出反应。