Race talk: the perpetuation of racism through private discourse

Myers, Kristen; Williamson, Passion

doi:10.1016/s1090-9524(02)00032-3

Cited by 74 publications

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“…The first uses critical discourse analysis to reveal closeted racism. This is the project of Teun van Dijk (1992), implemented by, among others, Bell and Hartmann (2007), Bonilla-Silva (1997, 2006, Myers and Williamson (2001) and Zamudio and Rios (2006), which aims to study discourse and to show how hesitations, contradictions, inconsistencies and nervous laughs are evidence of inner racism. Discourse analysis allows us 'to delve beneath the surface of initial answers to reach the deep structure and cultural commonsense' (Bell and Hartmann 2007, 898).…”

Section: Racism As a Category Of Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

The invader, the enemy within and they-who-must-not-be-named: how police talk about minorities in Italy, the Netherlands and France

Bonnet

Caillault

2014

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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International audienceHow people talk about ethnic minorities is a sensitive subject, especially in law enforcement. We know little about it as far as continental Europe is concerned. This article is about how police officers talk about minorities in France, in Italy and in the Netherlands. How do speech norms ("political correctness") apply outside the Anglophone world? Is there a relation between speech norms and practices? This exploratory study is based on interviews with 55 police officers from France, Italy and the Netherlands. In these countries, police officers are aware that displaying overt racism is not socially desirable. Interviews show that there are vastly different speech norms governing decent race talk in the three countries. Specifically, we compare: how police use ethnic categories; how police anticipate accusations of discrimination; and how police theorize the over-representation of ethnic minorities in crime. French respondents respect much stricter speech norms than Dutch or Italian ones

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Section: Racism As a Category Of Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

The invader, the enemy within and they-who-must-not-be-named: how police talk about minorities in Italy, the Netherlands and France

Bonnet

Caillault

2014

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…According to some researchers (Benokraitis and Feagin 1995;Bonilla-Silva and Forman 2000;McDermott 2006;Myers and Williamson 2001), one of the biggest problems with survey research, especially in regard to ultra-sensitive topics, such as race, class, gender, and sexuality, is its validity and reliability in the measurement of respondents' attitudes. That is, in today's society where it is often socially unacceptable to disclose personal prejudices, people are more likely to lie about and hide their illiberalities from public scrutiny.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Working Class Masculinity: Keeping Gay Men and Lesbians out of the Workplace

2007

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Recent survey research suggests that heterosexuals' attitudes toward lesbian and gay rights have become more progressive. However, we find in our research that negative attitudes and barriers against gay men and lesbians in workplaces still remain. Our project represents one case study of hidden animosity toward homosexuals, which varies from "overt disgust" to "don't ask, don't tell" policies that reinforce negative attitudes toward gay men and lesbians. As such, we contend that attitudes toward lesbian and gay rights are not becoming more progressive; instead various methods of discrimination are increasingly being used to exclude gay men and lesbians from the workplace. We argue that White working class men have constructed and maintained a form of White male solidarity, a collective practice directed toward women, People of Color, and non-heterosexuals that maintains racism, sexism, and homophobia in the local, national, and global context.

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“…Bonilla-Silva (2003) argues that when minimization is combined with cultural racism, the results are ideologically deadly (Bonilla-Silva 2003, 40), rendering the possibility of 'race cognizance' (Frankenberg 1997) near impossible. Myers and Williamson (2001) conducted participant observation to examine everyday discourse, defining 'race talk' as 'any talk that demeans on the basis of race or ethnicity' (Myers and Williamson 2001, 4). Their use of the term differs from that of Bonilla-Silva and Forman (2000) who define it as discursive attempts to mitigate a potentially racist view.…”

Section: Previous Studies Of Race Discourse and Whitenessmentioning

confidence: 99%