Class Discrimination? Evidence from Jamaica: A Racially Homogeneous Labor Market

Spencer, Nekeisha; Urquhart, Mikhail-Ann; Whitely, Patrice

doi:10.1177/0486613419832674

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“…It is likely that the inherently biased framing of the news stories would have influenced commenters to engage in the ensuing discourse along similarly prejudiced lines. Such negative and prejudicial associations with Kingston's inner-city communities is certainly not a new development, with the literature noting multiple dimensions of marginality having contributed to systemic othering, discrimination, and exclusion of persons from the city's downtown areas for decades (Spencer et al 2020;Altink 2015;Hunter 2010).…”

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Discourse, Difference, and Divergence: Exploring Media Representations and Online Public Sentiments toward Marginalized Urban Communities in Jamaica during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Despite lacking the resources to adequately adhere to public health protocols, urban residents belonging to impoverished communities in Kingston, Jamaica were prominently featured in local news reports that highlighted their breaches of social distancing. These reports generated an overwhelmingly prejudiced online social discourse, characterized by derogatory and dehumanizing remarks. This research aims to explore the ways media representations of calls for social distancing have unearthed latent social cleavages and contributed to the othering of Kingston’s poor. A thematic analysis was used to understand the nature of the public response to these news reports. The comments were manually coded, and emergent themes were classified based on the sentiments expressed. The comments generated evoked class, place, race, and political tensions, potentially perpetuating the public perception of vulnerable groups as the ‘threatening other’. These comments possibly represent deeper problems associated with the social divergence of Jamaican society. The lack of sensitivity exhibited shows a general disregard for the stark social realities commonly experienced by subaltern groups. These findings suggest media coverage promoting public safety, while important, may inadvertently lead to heightened social tensions and perpetuate social stigmas against marginalized groups, potentially stirring social divergence and countering efforts toward inclusiveness and integration.

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Discourse, Difference, and Divergence: Exploring Media Representations and Online Public Sentiments toward Marginalized Urban Communities in Jamaica during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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“…They have examined the ways in which "Creole nationalism"-a nonracialized nationalism that presents the nation as one people made up of different races and ethnicities living in harmony-has shaped people's understanding of racial discrimination and enabled the domination of the light-skinned middle strata in postindependence politics (for example Thame 2017; Thomas 2002 and. And along with various artists and writers, including Kei Miller, Caribbean social scientists have also tried to document and/or critique more nuanced methods of racial differentiation in Jamaica and other parts of the region, such as the use of the term "classism" to refer to practices whereby (mostly) dark-skinned people receive poorer treatment (for instance Kelly & Bailey 2018;Spencer et al 2020) or the popularity of skin bleaching (Charles 2009;Robinson 2011). And more recently, they have also started to quantify the influence of race on social inequality.…”

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Altink

2021

New West Indian Guide

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Because hotels are a microcosm of society, they offer a useful case study to explore social inequalities, including racial divisions. This article examines the experiences of African-Jamaican hotel workers and guests from independence in 1962 till the present to demonstrate the salience of Jamaica’s race and color relations. It argues that hotel workers and guests at times challenged the racialized practices that they experienced but more often refrained from doing so because of their socialization into a long-standing ethos of “Black is nuh good” and exposure to a nationalist ideology that projected a vision of racial harmony. The article also shows that through their responses to claims of racial discrimination in hotels, a variety of stakeholders, including tourist organizations, failed to challenge the island’s racial hierarchy which placed Whites on top, light-skinned Jamaicans in the middle, and dark-skinned Jamaicans at the bottom.

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“…Job providers prefer applicants who are considered to come from high-income backgrounds. Although qualification is unimportant, people with names preferred by job providers have lower chances of being employed if they possess high-quality resumes (Greenland et al, 2020;Spencer, Urquhart & Whitely, 2020).…”

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Translating Discriminatory Expressions in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Outstanding Novel

Widarwati

Wicaksono

2022

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Although studies on the expression of social class discrimination in the novel have much been documented, there is a paucity of research addressing how the expression of social class discrimination is translated into English. In response to this void, the present study aims at examining translation techniques in the expressions of social class discrimination in the novels written by Pramoedya Ananta Tour. This research employed a translation case study research design. The data were collected through observations and Focus Group Discussion. The data originated from Pramoedya Ananta Toer's novel, containing clauses containing social class discrimination. In this study, two questions are posed. First, what expressions of social class discrimination were found in the novel? Second, how was the expression containing social class discrimination translated into English? The findings showcase that the expressions of social class discrimination encompass subordination, stereotypical perspective, marginalization, and violence. In the same way, the most dominant translation technique is established equivalence, followed by modulation, explicitation, implicitation, paraphrase, transposition, pure borrowing, addition, reduction, generalization, discursive creation, particularization, description, variant borrowing, and deletion. The use of those translation techniques indicates that the quality of the translation is considered good. Discussion of implications empirically and practically is presented in the last part of this article.

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Class Discrimination? Evidence from Jamaica: A Racially Homogeneous Labor Market

Cited by 6 publications

References 29 publications

Discourse, Difference, and Divergence: Exploring Media Representations and Online Public Sentiments toward Marginalized Urban Communities in Jamaica during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Discourse, Difference, and Divergence: Exploring Media Representations and Online Public Sentiments toward Marginalized Urban Communities in Jamaica during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Translating Discriminatory Expressions in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Outstanding Novel

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