“We don’t throw stones, we throw flowers”
Race discourse and race evasiveness in the Norwegian university classroom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19002083 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yael Harlap (0000-0002-3956-3615, University of Bergen, corresponding author), Hanne Riese (University of Bergen) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1218-1238 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2021.1904146 |
| OpenAlex | W3140661512 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 46 |
How do university students and instructors engage in discussions about race and racism in a country where speaking about race is perceived as racist? In Norway, as in much of Europe, the concept of “race” is silenced, discarded as a wrong-headed remnant of Nazism, despite continued documentation of racial discrimination in labour, housing, education and interpersonal interaction. We used Membership Category Analysis to explore race-related interactions in classroom discourse in three university courses. We find that students and instructors implicitly equate Norwegianness with whiteness, peacefulness, and innocence, and characterize racism with deviance and non-Norwegianness. The national belonging of racialized “Others” in Norway is ambiguous: accepted, but not unproblematically. The category race is elided with the concepts of culture, ethnicity and biology. We propose discursive meta-awareness as an educational approach to countering race evasiveness (often described as “colourblindness”)
Deviance (statistics) · Documentation · Ethnic group · Innocence · Interpersonal communication · Linguistics · Norwegian · Political science · Race (biology) · Racialization · Racism · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Social and Intergroup Psychology
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Institutional practices sustaining race-evasion in Norwegian schools
Derslik Sosyolojisi
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Understanding teachers’ engagement with racism
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Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis
I—Axel Honneth
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Hitler's American Model
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‘Racism’, intersectionality and migration studies
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Conceptualizing color-evasiveness
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The Color of Supremacy
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The social imaginary of first generation Europeans
Racial Europeanization
Race, nation, class
White Innocence
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The Invisible Second Generation? Statistical Discrimination and Immigrant Stereotypes in Employment Processes in Norway
A tutorial on membership categorization
The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation
Europe and the Silence about Race
The Linguistics of Color Blind Racism
Invisible Fences
Norwegian Physical Anthropology and the Idea of a Nordic Master Race
Cloning cultures
Impossible presence
Discrimination of the Second Generation
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |