Racism And Discourse In Latin America

Author : Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0739127284

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Racism and Discourse in Latin America investigates how public discourse is involved in the daily reproduction of racism in Latin America. The essays examine political discourse, mass media discourse, textbooks and other forms of text, and talk by the white symbolic elites, looking at the ways these discourses express and confirm prejudices against indigenous people and against people of African descent. The essays show that ethnic and racial inequality in Latin America continues to exacerbate the chasm between the rich and the poor, despite formal progress in the rights of minorities during the last decades. Teun A. van Dijk brings together a multidisciplinary team of linguists and social scientists from eight Latin American countries (Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru), creating the first work in English that provides comprehensive insight into discursive racism across Latin America. Book jacket.

Author : Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294364

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Racism and Discourse in Spain and Latin America by Teun A. van Dijk Pdf

This new book extends Teun A. van Dijk’s earlier research on discursive racism to the Latin world. He presents a first inventory of elite discourse and racism in Spain and Latin America by examining discursive reactions in Spain to recent immigration, as well as age-old racism and ethnicism in text and talk in Latin America (especially Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile). Through careful analysis of the media, political discourse, textbooks and other public discourses in these countries he shows that discursive euro-racism is ubiquitous also in countries outside Europe. Spain reproduces, but as yet in a less radical way, the kind of racist discourse we find elsewhere in Western Europe. In Latin America, ethnicism and racism against the indigenous peoples and against Afrolatins has prevailed in elite discourse since colonialism and slavery. This is the first integrated study of discursive racism in the Latin world and provides a useful framework for similar research.

Author : Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317403845

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Racism and the Press by Teun A. van Dijk Pdf

Originally published in 1991. This book presents the results of an interdisciplinary study of the press coverage of ethnic affairs. Examples are drawn mainly from British and Dutch newspapers, but data from other countries are also reviewed. Besides providing the reader with a thorough content analysis of the material, the book is the first to introduce a detailed discourse analytical approach to the study of the ways in which ethnic minorities are portrayed in the press. The approach focuses on the topics, overall news report schemata, local meanings, style and rhetoric of news reports. Highly original, accomplished and penetrating, the book is the fruit of a decade of research into the question of racism and the press, important for ethnic studies, mass communication and media studies, sociology and linguistics.

Author : Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793615480

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Antiracist Discourse in Brazil by Teun A. van Dijk Pdf

Antiracist Discourse in Brazil: From Abolition to Affirmative Action follows Teun A. van Dijk’s earlier studies on racist discourse in Europe, the USA, and Latin America. This book focuses on antiracist discourse, focusing on the history of the discourse against slavery and racism and in favor of abolition and affirmative action in Brazil. After a theoretical chapter on antiracism and antiracist discourse, the author studies Jesuit texts of the 17th and 18th century criticizing the abuses against slaves and the texts of black and white writers in the 19th century advocating abolition. The author analyzes discourses of 20th century scholars, journalists, and activists who explicitly combat prevalent international eugenicist and racist ideologies as well as post-abolition discrimination of black people all while challenging the dominant myth of Brazil as a ‘racial democracy.’ After the historical study of these antiracist discourses, this book offers a detailed case study of contemporary debates on affirmative action in Brazilian parliament.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Anti-racism
ISBN : 1908857722

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Cultures of Anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Wade,Ignacio Aguil,James Scorer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1908857714

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Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean by Peter Wade,Ignacio Aguil,James Scorer Pdf

Latin America's long history of showing how racism can co-exist with racial mixture and conviviality offers useful ammunition for strengthening anti-racist stances. This volume asks whether cultural production has a particular role to play within discourses and practices of anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors analyse music, performance, education, language, film and art in diverse national contexts across the region. The book also places Latin American and Caribbean racial formations within a broader global context. It shows that the region provides valuable opportunities for thinking about anti-racism, not least when recent political events worldwide have shown that, far from a 'post-racial' age, we are living in an era of intensified racist expression and racial injustice.

Author : Paul Bailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Autobiographical memory
ISBN : 1857025660

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Old Soldiers by Paul Bailey Pdf

Reissue to follow up publication of Paul Bailey's new novel Kitty and Virgil. Two of his previous novels 'Peter Smart's Confessions' and 'Gabriel's Lament', were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Author : Mónica Moreno Figueroa,Peter Wade
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822988748

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Against Racism by Mónica Moreno Figueroa,Peter Wade Pdf

Powerful narratives often describe Latin American nations as fundamentally mestizo. These narratives have hampered the acknowledgment of racism in the region, but recent multiculturalist reforms have increased recognition of Black and Indigenous identities and cultures. Multiculturalism may focus on identity and visibility and address more casual and social forms of racism, but can also distract attention from structural racism and racialized inequality, and constrain larger antiracist initiatives. Additionally, multiple understandings of how racism and antiracism fit into projects of social transformation make racism a complex and multifaceted issue. The essays in Against Racism examine actors in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico that move beyond recognition politics to address structural inequalities and material conflicts and build common ground with other marginalized groups. The organizations in this study advocate an approach to deep social structural transformation that is inclusive, fosters alliances, and is inspired by a radical imagination.

Author : Marixa Lasso
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822973256

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Myths of Harmony by Marixa Lasso Pdf

This book centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most contemporary scholarship has focused the explanation for racial tolerance-or its lack-in the colonial period, Marixa Lasso argues that the key to understanding the origins of modern race relations are to be found later, in the Age of Revolution. Lasso rejects the common assumption that subalterns were passive and alienated from Creole-led patriot movements, and instead demonstrates that during Colombia's revolution, free blacks and mulattos (pardos) actively joined and occasionally even led the cause to overthrow the Spanish colonial government. As part of their platform, patriots declared legal racial equality for all citizens, and promulgated an ideology of harmony and fraternity for Colombians of all colors. The fact that blacks were mentioned as equals in the discourse of the revolution and later served in republican government posts was a radical political departure. These factors were instrumental in constructing a powerful myth of racial equality-a myth that would fuel revolutionary activity throughout Latin America. Thus emerged a historical paradox central to Latin American nation-building: the coexistence of the principle of racial equality with actual racism at the very inception of the republic. Ironically, the discourse of equality meant that grievances of racial discrimination were construed as unpatriotic and divisive acts-in its most extreme form, blacks were accused of preparing a race war. Lasso's work brings much-needed attention to the important role of the anticolonial struggles in shaping the nature of contemporary race relations and racial identities in Latin America.

Author : Teun A. Van Dijk
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739142783

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Racism and Discourse in Latin America by Teun A. Van Dijk Pdf

Racism and Discourse in Latin America investigates how public discourse is involved in the daily reproduction of racism in Latin America. The essays examine political discourse, mass media discourse, textbooks and other forms of text, and talk by the white symbolic elites, looking at the ways these discourses express and confirm prejudices against indigenous people and against people from African descent. The essays show that ethnic and racial inequality in Latin America continue to exacerbate the chasm between the rich and the poor, despite formal progress in the rights of minorities during the last decades. Teun A. van Dijk brings together a multidisciplinary team of linguists and social scientists from eight Latin American countries (Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru), creating the first work in English that provides comprehensive insight into discursive racism across Latin America.

Author : France Winddance Twine
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0813523656

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Racism in a Racial Democracy by France Winddance Twine Pdf

In Racism in a Racial Democracy, France Winddance Twine asks why Brazilians, particularly Afro-Brazilians, continue to have faith in Brazil's "racial democracy" in the face of pervasive racism in all spheres of Brazilian life. Through a detailed ethnography, Twine provides a cultural analysis of the everyday discursive and material practices that sustain and naturalize white supremacy. This is the first ethnographic study of racism in southeastern Brazil to place the practices of upwardly mobile Afro-Brazilians at the center of analysis. Based on extensive field research and more than fifty life histories with Afro- and Euro-Brazilians, this book analyzes how Brazilians conceptualize and respond to racial disparities. Twine illuminates the obstacles Brazilian activists face when attempting to generate grassroots support for an antiracist movement among the majority of working class Brazilians. Anyone interested in racism and antiracism in Latin America will find this book compelling.

Author : Peter Wade
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0745309879

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Race And Ethnicity In Latin America by Peter Wade Pdf

'An excellent source on past and present debates, and a coherent and insightful set of proposals concerning methodology'.International Affairs'More than merely providing a student's textbook. [Wade] covers the main themes and offers a comprehensive overview of the relevant debates ... an excellent textbook.'European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies'Wade's latest book is intelligent and easy-to-read, and represents a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the dynamics of race and ethnicity in Latin America.'Patterns of Prejudice

Author : Jerome Branche
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826264879

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Colonialism and Race in Luso-Hispanic Literature by Jerome Branche Pdf

"Branche examines a wide variety of Latin American literature and discourse to show the extent and range of racist sentiments throughout the culture. He argues that racism in the modern period (1415-1948) was a tool used to advance Spanish and Portuguese expansion, colonial enterprise, and the international development of capitalism"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Tanya Katerí Hernández
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107024861

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Racial Subordination in Latin America by Tanya Katerí Hernández Pdf

There are approximately 150 million people of African descent in Latin America yet Afro-descendants have been consistently marginalized as undesirable elements of the society. Latin America has nevertheless long prided itself on its absence of U.S.-styled state-mandated Jim Crow racial segregation laws. This book disrupts the traditional narrative of Latin America's legally benign racial past by comprehensively examining the existence of customary laws of racial regulation and the historic complicity of Latin American states in erecting and sustaining racial hierarchies. Tanya Katerí Hernández is the first author to consider the salience of the customary law of race regulation for the contemporary development of racial equality laws across the region. Therefore, the book has a particular relevance for the contemporary U.S. racial context in which Jim Crow laws have long been abolished and a "post-racial" rhetoric undermines the commitment to racial equality laws and policies amidst a backdrop of continued inequality.

Author : Teun Adrianus van Dijk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9027227047

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Racism and Discourse in Spain and Latin America by Teun Adrianus van Dijk Pdf

LC Number: 2005048399