Against the notion of a ‘new racism’

Leach, Colin Wayne

doi:10.1002/casp.841

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“…This further exacerbates the difficulties in conducting social scientific research on racism using methods such as surveys, interviews, and other forms of self-report data, since participants who become aware that the research is focusing on matters of race tend to work to resist any possibility of being seen as 'racist' in the reports they 4 provide to the researcher -an issue that has long been recognised by social scientists (see, e.g., Leach 2005).…”

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The anatomy of ‘race trouble’ in online interactions

Cresswell¹,

Whitehead²,

Durrheim³

2014

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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South Africa has a long history of race-related conflicts in a variety of settings, but the use of the concept 'racism' to analyse such conflicts is characterized by theoretical and methodological difficulties. In this article, we apply the alternative 'race trouble' framework developed by Durrheim, Mtose & Brown (2011) to the examination of racialized conflicts in online newspaper forums. We analyse the conflicts using an approach informed by conversation analytic and discursive psychological techniques, focusing in particular on the emergence and use of race and racism as interactional resources. Our findings reveal some mechanisms through which the continuing salience of race in South Africa comes to be reproduced in everyday interactions, thereby suggesting reasons why race continues to garner social and cultural importance. Disagreements over the nature of racism were also recurrent in the exchanges we examined, demonstrating the contested and shifting meanings of this concept in everyday interactions.

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The anatomy of ‘race trouble’ in online interactions

Cresswell¹,

Whitehead²,

Durrheim³

2014

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…The term 'ethnicity' denotes a system of shared beliefs, myths of ancestry and common cultural practices (Hutchinson & Smith, 1996). Following Leach (2005), we use the terms 'racial' , 'race', 'black' and 'white' to denote pseudobiological categories that are made real by racism and racist practices. Ethnic attitudes, identification and self-esteem 4 developing self-concept, and enables us to test the generality of existing theoretical claims which have been based primarily on data collected from majority group children only.…”

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Children's implicit and explicit ethnic group attitudes, ethnic group identification, and self-esteem

Davis

Leman

Barrett

2007

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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An increasing amount of research explores how children distinguish different aspects of ethnic group attitudes. However, little work has focused on how these aspects tie in with other social and psychological processes. In the present study, 112 black and white children aged 5-, 7- and 9-years completed tests of implicit and explicit ethnic group attitudes, racial and ethnic identification, and self-esteem. Whereas all children exhibited coherent identification with ethnicity defined in terms of family ancestry, only black children identified with ethnicity as defined by racial colour terms. There were no differences in black and white children's self-esteem. Children from both ethnic groups stereotyped only the black character. This stereotyping was stable with age. Positivity was greater towards the black than the white target on implicit and explicit tasks. Negativity towards the white target was evidenced on the implicit task. Positivity, but not stereotyping, was greater on the explicit task compared with the implicit task. Black but not white children's in-group identification was associated with implicit in-group stereotypes. Self-esteem was related to in- and out-group stereotyping and positivity for white but not black children. The implications of these results for social identity development theory and social identity theory are discussed.

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“…For example, Leach (2005) argues that blatant racist discourse was no more prevalent before de jure racial equality than it is in more recent times, and that denials of racism and subtle forms of racist discourse were prevalent in both institutional and everyday discourse for many decades before they became objects of social scientific attention. There may thus be more historical continuity in racial discourses than studies grounded in theories of "new racism" typically assume (Leach, 2005).…”

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Discursive Approaches to Race and Racism

Whitehead¹

2017

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication

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SummaryIn the wake of what has been called the "discursive turn" or "linguistic turn" in the social sciences, research at the intersection of language and communication and race and racism shifted from being largely dominated by quantitative and experimental methods to include qualitative and particularly discursive approaches. While the term "discursive" potentially encompasses a wide range of modes of discourse analysis, discursive approaches share in common a focus on language use as social action, and as a constitutive feature of actions, events and situations, rather than as merely a passive means of describing or transmitting information about them.When applied to the study of race and racism, such approaches have examined ways in which language functions to construct, maintain and legitimate as well as subvert or resist racial and/or racist ideologies and social structures.Research in these areas has made use of a range of empirical materials, including "elite" texts and talk (media texts, parliamentary debates, academic texts, etc.), individual interviews, focus groups and group discussions, "naturally occurring" talk-in-interaction from conversational and institutional settings, and text-based online interactions. Although these different data types should not be seen as strictly mutually exclusive, each of them serves to foreground particular features of racial or racist discourse(s), thus facilitating or constraining particular sorts of discourse analytic findings. Thus, different data sources respectively tend to foreground ideological features of racial discourse(s) and their intersection with power and domination, 2 including examination of "new" racisms and the production and management of accusations and denials of racism; discursive processes involved in the construction and uses of racial subjectivities and identities; interactional processes through which prejudice and racism are constructed and contested; and the everyday interactional reproduction of systems of racial categories, independently of whether the talk in which they occur can or should be considered "racist".

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Against the notion of a ‘new racism’

Cited by 74 publications

References 27 publications

The anatomy of ‘race trouble’ in online interactions

The anatomy of ‘race trouble’ in online interactions

Children's implicit and explicit ethnic group attitudes, ethnic group identification, and self-esteem

Discursive Approaches to Race and Racism

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