DISCOURSE AND RACISM

DISCOURSE AND RACISM

1. Discourse strands and collective symbols

   • STRANDS
     • Several discourses are tangled
       • Knot discourse
       • Encompasses various subtopics
     • Intensive discourses
   • COLLECTIVE SYMBOLS
     • Cultural Stereotypes
       • Topoi
     • Catachereses
       • Technique for collecting symbols
     • The main focus of the Duisburg studies is
       • Semantics
   • Siegfried Jäger and the Duisburg group
     • Their method leads people to tell their personal stories in depth
       • media analysis, in particular of the German tabloid Bildzeitung
   • The main focus of the Duisburg is study
     • Semantics discourse
       • discourse levels” (i.e. science, politics, media, education, everyday life, business life, and administra tion).
         • That are immediately understood by the mem bers of the same speech community

2. The Loughborough group

   • They tend to universilized the conditions of racism
     • Discourse is actively constitutive of both social and psychological processes

3. prejudices and stereotypes

   • What are prejudice and stereotype?
     • prejudices are mental states in a social group defining negative attitudes of stereotypic convictions or beliefs.
       • Prejudices and stereotypes are analytical approaches to racism
         • there is another apprach which is
           • the Sociocognitive approach
             • prejudice is not based on individual beliefs or emotions, on contrary is based on social communication and interaction that conforms 8 categories of discrimination
               • diversion
               • dominance
               • diffusion
               • depersonalization
               • differentiation
               • distance
               • destruction
               • daily discrimination
               • the text suggests the long-term memory keeps the production and retention of social prejudices
                 • Which are those social prejudices?
                   • prejudices are influenced by status, appearance, social cultural norms and socioeconomic status, religion, language.
                     • The Social prejudices keep production and retention in
                       • long-term memory through
                         • the episodic memory that belongs in personal experiences narrated or personally retained experiences
                   • Where come from prejudices?
                     • The elites produces and reproduces the racism that is implemented and enacted in other social fields.
     • linguistically Quasthoff (2001) defines stereotype as a verbal expression caused by convictions or beliefs toward a social group.

4. Racist discourses

   • the text requires people do Racist discourses dynamic and contradictory.
   • which is the function of Racist discourses?
     • to construct collective subjects such as:
       • races
       • nations
       • ethnicities
     • construction, perpetuating, transformational, and destructive social context
     • play a decisive role in the genesis and production of certain social conditions
     • perpetuate, produce and justify a certain social status. "realized" "natinalized" "ethnicized".
   • The analytical discourse includes different studies such as
     • the topic or the contents
     • argumentation
     • linguistic mean
     • discriminatory stereotypes

5. Conclusion

   • it is possible to delimit racism from adjacent or possibly overlapping discriminatory phenomena
     • Antisemitism
     • Nationalism
     • Ethnicism
     • Sexism
     • Clear boundaries between these differences
       • Despite the vast amount of specialist literature in the areas
         • social science
         • philosophy
         • discourse analysis
         • history
   • Definition of race
     • Synopsis of five discourse analytical approaches
       • Problem of Racism, and a illustration of the discourse-historical approach.
         • Racism remains amultifaceled and theoretically complex issue that leaves us without comprenhesive ansewrs to many questions
           • What exctly are we supossed to take "racist" and "racism" to mean?
           • Which specific forms of “genetic,” “culturalist,” and “institutional racism” do we nowadays face and what causes them?
           • How do these different forms of racism manifest themselves in discourse?
       • Analytical approaches
         • Of the Historical approach
       • The problem of racism
       • Illustration

6. The Concept of Race

   • We can define it by 2 areas
     • Biology
     • Genetics
       • From a social functional point of view, “race” is a social construcion
         • It has been used as a legitimating ideological tool to oppress and exploit specific social groups
           • To deny the access to
             • Material resources
             • Cultural resources
             • Political resources
             • Work
             • Welfare services
             • Housing
             • Political rights
         • The concept around and used it to construct an alternative, positive self-identity
           • Also used it as a basis for political resistance and to fight for
             • Political autonomy
             • Independence
             • participation

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