Restoring Black/Indigenous relations in Australia : an indigenist sociological theory for Bla(c)k indigeneity in the global South

The complex, trans-cultural and social history between Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islanders and people of the global African diaspora in Australia is a long, often undocumented, and unknown history. Much of the Black experience is dominated by the Northern Hemisphere. This paper will consider some of the findings in my PhD research, which speaks back to the North, from the standpoint and intersectional experiences of Black Indigeneity across Oceania. This work offers an Indigenist sociological critique to build a theory on Bla(c)k Indigeneity from the global South. The theoretical developments advanced through this project offer a critical framework to instigate a global Black praxis and agenda for humanities and social sciences theory. Embedding Indigenous relational ontologies from the South into the international Black strategy for liberation, is critical to the political growth and socio-cultural development of our communities. The objective outputs for this research are grounded in healing the racial hierarchies of Blackness that often divide our communities. It deconstructs racialisation as a tool of coloniality that divides Black and Indigenous people. Racialisation has produced the necessary pre-conditions to maintain centuries of psycho-social conditioning and colonial programming that continues to disrupt Black/Bla(c)k Indigenous spirituality and ancestral ways of being in deep relations with one another. In the important era of Black Lives Matter, restoring Black/Indigenous relations beyond performative allyship is one of the most significant and urgent projects towards transformative and liberatory Indigenous agendas for sovereign First Nation futures.