The creation of black spaces has been a way of fostering positive social definitions of blackness in the face of the negative definitions used in broader society. For the Caribbean community, the members of which are not all black, it has been about passing on Caribbean cultural traditions to their children and grandchildren and fostering pride in their racial heritage (Binnie, quoted in Smith, 2014, p. 127). The Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) were formed to carry on activist traditions passed down from their parents, which give voice and pride to their community. The fostering of black pride is also a political stance, which follows on from the Black Consciousness and Black Power movements of the early to mid-twentieth century.  
Another way in which blackness is shared between the different communities is through popular culture. The Caribbean community recreates a form of Carnival in order to occupy a space in Australian society, a space which is also a black space. The Kulin peoples of Melbourne perform Tanderrum, a dance and cultural gathering. People from Global Africa, largely from East African countries at this time, have been forming communities and are actively  
organizing through youth-led activities such as 'In Our Own Words', to claim and assert positive black identities.  
For Aboriginal peoples, there has also been a break from blackness as skin colour, which is typically framed in relation to whiteness. The articulation of Aboriginal ways of doing, knowing and being, signifies this break. Understood within a decolonizing framework that includes Aboriginal paradigms, identities are expressed in terms of kinship, connection to land and spirituality. Meanings of blackness are therefore redefined in terms of Aboriginal realities, histories and experiences.