‘I have not witnessed it personally myself, but…’: Epistemics in managing talk on racism against immigrants in Ireland

Sambaraju, Rahul; Minescu, Anca

doi:10.1002/ejsp.2539

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“…Complainers and recipients of complaints treat the categorization of the actors as central to negotiating racism. Sambaraju and Minescu (2019) show that participants treat knowledge about racism in the context of immigration as tied to their own categorization as migrants or citizens.…”

Section: Membership Categorization Analysis Race Categories and Racismmentioning

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“We are the victims of racism”: Victim categories in negotiating claims about racism against Black‐Africans in India

Sambaraju

2021

Euro J Social Psych

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Recent events in the United States of America and elsewhere have shown the persistence of racism in violent forms (Al Jazeera, 2020).Social scientists, including social psychologists, have offered significant insights into how racial formations and actions between White and Black peoples are realized (Bonilla-Silva, 2017;Dovidio & Gaertner, 2000;Salter & Adams, 2013). Related but distinct issues of racial formations and actions across and in between non-White groups have been relatively underexamined. In an increasingly diverse world, these latter forms of interaction are prominent and, problematically, can lead to similar forms of violence. In the present article, I focus on anti-Black racism in India (Adegoke, 2017).In much of social psychology, issues of race and racism have rarely been examined in settings where non-White groups are implicated as perpetrators. This omission is important on three fronts. First, the minimal examination of such contexts relates to concerns over psychology being developed as a WEIRD discipline (Henrich et al., 2010), that is, a discipline concerned with people and behaviours in Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic, or largely White-majority, settings to the effect of excluding people in other settings. Second, much research in social psychology focuses on the role of racial/ethnic group membership and intergroup relations in examining racism.In settings where non-White groups are implicated as perpetrators of racism, alternative forms of group membership and identities are likely to be relevant. While being "White" might allow for a ready understanding of being in the majority group or in a position to oppress others, membership in other racial categories (non-White) might complicate claims of being oppressors. We know little about how those in marginalized communities who themselves face/d racism manage issues with racism (cf. Salter & Adams, 2013). Third, in these settings a ready possibility is for them to claim victimhood. This means that alongside considering

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Section: Membership Categorization Analysis Race Categories and Racismmentioning

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“We are the victims of racism”: Victim categories in negotiating claims about racism against Black‐Africans in India

Sambaraju

2021

Euro J Social Psych

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“…Extensive discursive research points to denials and suppression of accusations of racism van Dijk, 1992). Sambaraju and Minescu (2018) show that majority group members do not treat themselves as having the rights to make claims about racism that ethnic minority members may face. In the present case, majority group members treat their majority status to mean having rights and responsibilities to be antiracist.…”

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“You are Irish—andasIrish as Me!”: Antiracism and National Identities in Ireland

Sambaraju

2021

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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What is the role of national identities in doing antiracism? In social psychology, much research on racism has examined processes and practices of exclusion. Scant research however has examined practices of inclusion. In this paper, I examine practices of national majority group members doing antiracism in response to complaints by ethnic minority members about facing racism on Twitter about their national belonging. I examine these instances and responses to these in the Irish context, as in Ireland, being “Irish” can mean both ethnic and national identity. Findings show that respondents’ national identification was central to practices of inclusion, such as that of affirming the Irishness of those facing exclusion. For respondents’ national belonging was oriented to as significant for those complaining about inclusion, for themselves, and for those who were engaging in racist exclusion of ethnic minority members. Together the findings show that while national identities allow for antiracism, these problematically suppress the relevance of race in favor of nations and nationalisms.

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“…Denials of prejudice are then rhetorically significant as they mitigate inferences of irrationality. Other approaches based in discursive psychology (in distinction to critical discursive approaches) similarly locate the examination of race and racism in individuals' orientations in their interactions and social practices (Goodman, 2014; Sambaraju & Minescu, 2019).…”

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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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‘I have not witnessed it personally myself, but…’: Epistemics in managing talk on racism against immigrants in Ireland

Cited by 5 publications

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“We are the victims of racism”: Victim categories in negotiating claims about racism against Black‐Africans in India

“We are the victims of racism”: Victim categories in negotiating claims about racism against Black‐Africans in India

“You are Irish—andasIrish as Me!”: Antiracism and National Identities in Ireland

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

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