Stories and Racism
- 1 January 1993
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
- p. 121-142
- https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483345277.n6
Abstract
In this chapter I examine the role of storytelling in the reproduction of racism. This analysis of everyday stories about ethnic or racial minorities is part of a long-term research project about the discursive reproduction of racism in white, European(ized) societies. My earlier work in this field focused on everyday conversations (van Dijk, 1984, 1987a), textbooks (van Dijk, 1987b), and news in the press (van Dijk, 1991). My present research pays special attention to the role of various (other) types of elite discourse, for example, in politics, corporations, and scholarship (van Dijk, 1993). The research project is essentially multidisciplinary. It relates properties of text and talk with underlying social cognitions of language users as social group ...Keywords
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