“I’m not racist but I expect linguistic assimilation”: The concealing power of humor in an anti-racist campaign

Archakis, Αrgiris; Tsakona, Villy

doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2017.03.005

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“…This kind of global mindset could also explain why this pattern was found for both groups of students—those with and without a migration background. Yet, migration background students’ disagreement with heritage culture maintenance (i.e., having an individualism pattern like in Greece and Switzerland) could also be due to their experience of assimilationist pressures within the school context (Archakis et al, 2018 ; Makarova et al, 2019 ) or unfavorable integration policies (e.g., MIPEX). Then, the one-sided integration profile of majority students strengthens the importance of a mutual acculturation framework, because if only attitudes toward minority acculturation had been assessed, these students would have fallen into an integration category.…”

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Minority and Majority Adolescents’ Attitudes toward Mutual Acculturation and its Association with Psychological Adjustment

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Baysu

Kassis

et al. 2022

J Youth Adolescence

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Although acculturation is considered a mutual process, no measure assesses attitudes toward mutual acculturation. Through a novel four-dimensional measurement, this study addresses this research gap by assessing attitudes toward minority and majority acculturation and its relation to psychological adjustment for immigrant-background minority and non-immigrant majority adolescents in public secondary schools in three European countries: in Germany (n = 346, 46% female, Mage = 12.78 years, range 11–16), Greece (n = 439, 56% female, Mage = 12.29 years, range 11–20), and Switzerland (n = 375, 47% female, Mage = 12.67 years, range 11–15). Latent profile analyses led to three distinct acculturation profiles in all three countries: strong and mild mutual integration profiles, where both migrant and majority students are expected to integrate, and a third profile assuming lower responsibility upon the majority. Additionally, those in the strong- and mild-integration profiles reported stronger psychological adjustment than those assuming lower responsibility upon the majority, which held for all students in Switzerland and mostly for those without a migration background in Germany. The findings demonstrate the importance of a mutual acculturation framework for future research. Moreover, as most adolescents fit in with one of the mutual integration patterns, findings stress that no matter their migration background, adolescents favor mutual integration including the expectation on schools to enhance intercultural contact.

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Minority and Majority Adolescents’ Attitudes toward Mutual Acculturation and its Association with Psychological Adjustment

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Baysu

Kassis

et al. 2022

J Youth Adolescence

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“…At the same time, humour may distract readers from concentrating on the reproduction of racist values and views and, consequently, they may perceive these texts as exclusively antiracist ones. When racism is missed or overlooked, it becomes normalised and the distinction between racism and antiracism becomes blurred (see among others Trepagnier, 2010;Archakis et al, 2018;Pérez, 2022).…”

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“…Relevant studies more or less explicitly ascribe to critical humour studies investigating topics such as how and why humour targeting the linguistic, cultural, or religious Other reproduces and maintains social discrimination and inequality; how and why the generic conventions of humorous genres do not incite the audience to think critically of their content but instead enhance their tolerance for discriminatory and racist standpoints; what kind of rhetorical strategies (e.g. disclaimers, denials) are employed by the (re)producers of racist jokes to mitigate their hostility and to exonerate themselves from the accusation of being racists; and how discriminatory humour may force the targeted groups to assimilate to prevalent social norms so as to avoid being ridiculed due to their differences (see among others Billig, 2005;Hill, 2008;Lockyer & Pickering, 2008;Santa Ana, 2009;Weaver, 2016;Malmquist, 2015;Archakis et al, 2018;Archakis & Tsakona, 2019Ervine, 2019;Pérez, 2022;Pérez & Kuipers, 2024).…”

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Liquid racism in Greek online satirical news

Tsakona

2024

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The present study explores the infiltration of racism in humorous texts which at first sight appear to have antiracist intentions, in particular in satirical news coming from popular Greek websites and targeting majority people for their racist practices towards migrants. The analysis reveals that distinguishing between antiracist and racist interpretations is not an easy or straightforward matter: humour seems to blur the boundary between racism and antiracism. In this context, the concept of liquid racism (Weaver, 2016) is exploited to account for the ambiguities of humorous discourse when it involves racist and antiracist meanings. Furthermore, given that this paper is part of a special issue on “Humour and the public sphere”, the latter understood in Habermas’s (1989/1962) sense, I will venture some observations concerning the (in)compatibility between Habermas’s conceptualisation of the public sphere and humour/satire. Perhaps a broader and more inclusive definition of the public sphere than the one initially proposed by Habermas is called for, which will allow for the ambiguities of satirical humour.

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“…Other investigators have observed how YouTube videos are used in anti-racist campaigns. For example, one such video exploits comedy to depict racist attitudes in such an overblown way that they are ridiculed by common sense, although they can function as overlapping modes of assimilation (Archakisa et al, 2018).…”

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Hate Speech: A Systematized Review

2020

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This review focuses on papers on Hate Speech, particularly in legal and communication studies indexed in Web of Science. It analyzes output published in English and in Spanish as well as surveys the predominant disciplines in which these studies are written, their trend over time, by country, and type of document. This research is extended to determine the debates, lines of work of greatest interest, and the theories elaborated. The legal literature is intended to define hate speech and hate crime for the purposes of applying criminal sanctions. From the communication standpoint, the analysis of hate speech in the media is key to understanding the type of message used, its emitter, the way in which the message rallies supporters, and how they interpret the message. Spanish studies mostly fall within the legal area, in which they focus on cases of insult directed at the Catholic religion. We discuss the importance of interdisciplinarity and transversality and propose a mapping of hate speech that lends itself to comparisons between countries to assess measures to counteract their effects.

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“I’m not racist but I expect linguistic assimilation”: The concealing power of humor in an anti-racist campaign

Cited by 38 publications

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Minority and Majority Adolescents’ Attitudes toward Mutual Acculturation and its Association with Psychological Adjustment

Minority and Majority Adolescents’ Attitudes toward Mutual Acculturation and its Association with Psychological Adjustment

Liquid racism in Greek online satirical news

Hate Speech: A Systematized Review

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