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- Title: Discourses of "Democratic Racism" in the Talk of South Asian Canadian Women.
- Author : Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 244 KB
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Abstract Despite societal norms of tolerance and diversity, covert "democratic" racism (Henry and Tator 2006) flourishes in Canada on individual and systemic levels. Democratic racism, an ideology that allows the coexistence of both egalitarian values and racist attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours, is often expressed by the dominant group through powerful discourses that shape the social reality for many minority individuals. However, racist discourses, such as blaming the target of racism and denying that racism exists, are often manifested very subtly. In this article, we use democratic racism as a framework to investigate the multiple ways in which our participants--South Asian Canadian women--described their experiences of racism. A discourse analysis of participants' talk revealed that they used various rhetorical strategies and discursive devices to avoid attributing negative experiences as racism. Surprisingly, we found that the same discourses used by the dominant group to dismiss and erase racism are available to, and are also utilized by, members of visible minority groups. We conclude by discussing possible reasons why participants in the study might deny racism. We also note the societal implication of such denial: racism becomes invisible, both to the perpetrators and the targets, and systemic inequalities and injustices remain unchallenged.
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