The Transmission of Racial Attitudes Among White Southerners

Quinn, Olive W.

doi:10.2307/2573142

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“…For example, for some enslaved people, and for others not inculcated into the ideology, the effect was opaque. Olive Westbrooke Quinn reports that children who erred in using such markings, according to widespread but generally tacit norms and defaults, were corrected by their elders (1954, 43), but (again) in an opaque way. For example, she quotes one respondent as saying: “Once when I was a little girl a Negro woman came to the door.…”

Section: Systems Of Categorizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Channels for Common Ground

Swanson

2020

Philos Phenomenol Research

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One potentially ethically relevant feature of an utterance is that utterance's influence on the likelihoods that our future discourses wind up with one Stalnakerian ‘common ground’ or body of shared information rather than another. Such likelihoods matter ethically, so the ways our utterances influence them can matter ethically, despite the fact that such influences are often unintended, and often hard to see. By offering a relatively neutral descriptive framework that can enhance our collective sensitivity to and discussion of ethically, socially, and politically important features of language use, this paper contributes to the ethics of language use. It discusses ways in which utterances can influence the likelihoods of future common grounds by deploying one system of categorization rather than another, and argues that language’s effects on the evolution of discourse can affect the paths to and probabilities of different sorts of consensus.

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Section: Systems Of Categorizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Swanson

2020

Philos Phenomenol Research

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“…Such studies should not only focus on the years in which race awareness manifests itself and race attitudes are formed, but should also study the mechanisms by which attitudes are transmitted. Quinn's article (Quinn, 1954) may be helpful to research workers who wish to initiate studies on this topic in South Africa.…”

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confidence: 99%