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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a powerful story of a black man's revenge against an unjust and intolerant society, where the whites assume and abuse authority on the basis of racial superiority. Jimmie is mistreated and racially abused throughout the entirety of the novel. This racial abuse is what leads Jimmie to his murderous rampage in the middle of the novel. Keneally wrote this novel with the purpose of trying to eliminate racism against the aborigines, and to rid society of the concept of racial superiority, and the abuse of the authority, which is created by the concept. Each time Jimmie is racially abused, he becomes more and more provoked, until he lets out his anger against white society by carrying out all the murders.

Jimmie Blacksmith discards his aboriginal ancestry and tries to fit into the white culture and follow the white ways of life, only to eventually be rejected from it, due to

After Jimmie had finished working for Healy, he managed to get a contract with a Scottish farmer named Lewis. Mr Lewis mistreated Jimmie and treated him as an inferior. Lewis found many "fictional faults" with Jimmie's work, much the same way as Healy did. Since Lewis had a strong feeling of racial superiority over Jimmie, he threatened to cut Jimmie's wages, to a point at which he would not be able to buy food for Mort and himself. This abuse angered Jimmie, and he decided to leave the job, so he and Mort walked off.

The next provocation that Jimmie receives due to racism and inferiority to the whites was when he was in the Department of Agriculture in Muswellbrook. Jimmie had gone there to get some information about fencing, because he was interested in doing a good job for Mr Healy. This incident involved the office-chief yelling racist insults at Jimmie, such as "Get out of here, you black layabout!" This sort of insult, mentioning that he is black, is exactly the sort of racial abuse created by the feeling of racial superiority on the white man's behalf. What also provokes Jimmie is that they do not believe that he really wants to do a good job of the fence, and just stereotype him into the lazy and inactive class of aborigines, which is another sign of this notion of racial superiority.

Jimmie decides to leave the "drunken crowd" of aborigines, and get a job in the white world. Mr Neville wrote a reference for Jimmie to show the people who he wanted to work for. None of the white farmers even bothered to look at the reference when Jimmie tried for work at several places. This shows that the white people feel so superior to Jimmie that they need not bother. This racial superiority displayed was the first major provocation to Jimmie from the white society in the novel. Jimmie eventually secures a job with an Irish farmer named Mr Healy, and he didn't look at the reference either. Another sign of the theme of racial superiority was when Mr Healy asked Jimmie "Yer have any religion? Other than nigger?" Jimmie's reply was "Methodist," which is not his tribal religion.

The novel, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, is a severe criticisim of a racist society where the white man assumes a feeling of racial superiority over the blacks. Keneally is trying to free the blacks from this prison of racism and inferiority. The ev

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