Antirasismens Andra

Abstract

The category of the “immigrant student”, which is often used in the educational setting from where the following study collects its data, is indeed an elusive one – especially so when it is employed as a label of students who have no experience of migration at all. The frequent use of the category is even more confusing, considering that Swedish publicity could be described as characterized by a hegemonic anti-racist discourse, including an often reproduced master narrative of a country which – except from a few right wing extremists – is considered to be a nation without racism. Drawing on linguistic ethnographic data from a fieldwork in a high prestigious secondary school in inner city Stockholm, this article examines how narratives of an unruly classroom behavior become associated with ”the young immigrant student” category, and furthermore, how students rhetorically manage the dilemma to tell that story without sounding disparaging. The paper is an investigation of anti-racist waysoftalkingaboutfailing students as the ethnic or racial Others.

‘Fuck Them Walla’: Girls’ Resistance Within Racialized Online Assemblages

“…The term has later been applied to describe the continual and contingent process by which someone is 'marked' and thus ascribed race, particularly as 'non-white' (Swe: rasifieras som icke-vit). The nominalization 'racialized' (Swe: rasifierad) has become popularized within the Swedish context and widely appropriated by racially marginalized people as a means of challenging whiteness in everyday speech (Hübinette, 2011;Jonsson, 2019). The process of racialization is closely intertwined with the use of language, names, clothing and religious symbols (Back, 2002b;Mac an Ghaill, 1988;Nayak, 1999).…”

“…Similar to other Western contexts, racial minority youth in Sweden experience different and multiple forms of racism which permeate their various everyday life venues (Jonsson, 2019). This occurs despite the Swedish welfare state's self-image as anti-racist and Swedish society as 'post-racial' (Jonsson, 2019; see also Titley, 2019).…”

“…Similar to other Western contexts, racial minority youth in Sweden experience different and multiple forms of racism which permeate their various everyday life venues (Jonsson, 2019). This occurs despite the Swedish welfare state's self-image as anti-racist and Swedish society as 'post-racial' (Jonsson, 2019; see also Titley, 2019). As social media and internet usage has become a ubiquitous feature and a social necessity for most youth, everyday forms of racism have passed over to their everyday online contexts as well (Swedish Media Council, 2019).…”

“…In fact, surveys suggest that online harassment on the basis of ethnicity, religion and country of origin has increased in Sweden in recent years, and that these practices are particularly affecting girls (Swedish Media Council, 2019). There is a fair amount of research on youths' experiences of racism in schools (Basile, 2020;Mac an Ghaill, 1988;Nayak, 1999), including in Sweden (Jonsson, 2007(Jonsson, , 2019León Rosales & Jonsson, 2019), but a paucity of studies on their experiences of and responses to everyday racism on social media (cf. Carney, 2016).…”