Membership categorization analysis, race, and racism

Shrikant, Natasha; Sambaraju, Rahul

doi:10.1080/14780887.2023.2245348

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“…What has not been appreciated is the flexibility with which race categories can be developed and used (cf. Shrikant & Sambaraju, 2023). In the present case speakers treat race categories as implicating racial histories of US, through their relations with ancestors who were directly implicated in those injustices.…”

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“My mother did not have civil rights under the law”: Family derived race categories in negotiating positions on Critical Race Theory

Sambaraju

2024

Journal of Social Issues

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How do persons negotiate the relevance of historic racial injustice for contemporary concerns? In this paper, I show that persons could develop and use racial categorizations in association with family relations to make salient (or not) the relevance of past racial injustice for contemporary concerns. I examined how people construct and orient to racial group membership as implying historical oppression, and its relevance for contemporary interracial relations in the form of supporting or opposing Critical Race Theory (CRT) teaching in the United States public school system. I examined debates and discussions on CRT televised in the American news media using discursive psychological approaches. Findings show that race categories were developed and used in relation to one's ancestors: parents, aunts and uncles, and distant generations. This was done to raise the salience of past racial injustice, which otherwise would involve offering historic or other social structural arguments. The use of family derived race categories at once personalized and enhanced the credibility of the speaker, and countered possible implications for taking responsibility for past actions. These family‐derived race categories were then a resource speakers could use to negotiate their position on CRT. These findings are discussed in relation to the relevance of time for negotiating racism. Further arguments are developed in relation to how an ethnomethodological approach can illuminate critical arguments on race and racism.

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“My mother did not have civil rights under the law”: Family derived race categories in negotiating positions on Critical Race Theory

Sambaraju

2024

Journal of Social Issues

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“…Others argue for examining the construction and use of race categories in situ-in individuals' interactions and their discursive practices (Goodman, 2014). This however is not meant to suppress the broader relevance of race categories (see Shrikant & Sambaraju, 2023). Instead, the express focus is on how race categories and, consequently, racism are matters of engagement and negotiation in interaction (Goodman, 2014).…”

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Racism in the “colony”: Towards appreciating race fluidity and racialization in social psychology of racism

Sambaraju

2024

Social & Personality Psych

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Race is a significant means through which individuals and groups relate to each other. A problematic instance of its significance is colonialism and all the destruction it brought with it. In this paper, I explore how knowledge about race and racism from settings that were erstwhile colonized can enrich current understandings and approaches to studying race and racism in social psychology. I advance the possibility of mutual learning and sharing of theoretical and methodological practices for researchers who examine race and racism in colonizing or settler‐colonial settings and those in erstwhile colonized settings. I do so by first, locating the centrality of Whiteness for the very development of race categories and the shaping of psychology as a discipline. Second, I discuss how race and racism are examined in (primarily) Euro‐American contexts, with a focus on engagement with Whiteness by Critical Race Psychologists and social constructionist researchers. Third, I outline alternative ways of engaging with race and race categories identified in erstwhile colonized places. I end with how this latter informs our understandings of race and racism, and possibilities for mutual learning.

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Black methodologies as ethnomethods: on qualitative methods-making and analyzing the situated work of doing being hybridly human

Williamson

2024

Qualitative Research in Psychology

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Membership categorization analysis, race, and racism

Cited by 4 publications

References 70 publications

“My mother did not have civil rights under the law”: Family derived race categories in negotiating positions on Critical Race Theory

“My mother did not have civil rights under the law”: Family derived race categories in negotiating positions on Critical Race Theory

Racism in the “colony”: Towards appreciating race fluidity and racialization in social psychology of racism

Black methodologies as ethnomethods: on qualitative methods-making and analyzing the situated work of doing being hybridly human

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