The social construction of racism
The case of second generation Bangladeshis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12397264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bipasha Ahmed (University of Greenwich, corresponding author), Paula Nicolson (University of Sheffield), Chris Spencer (University of Sheffield) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33-47 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1052-9284 • E-ISSN: 1099-1298 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/(sici)1099-1298(200001/02)10:1<33::aid-casp529>3.0.co;2-b |
| OpenAlex | W2124057166 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 16 |
This paper examines the ways in which a group of middle class second generation Bangladeshi adults construct and account for their experiences of racism. Using a discursive analysis of tape recorded conversations, the study shows how various discursive practices construct racism in participant's descriptions of racist experiences, and how these constructions serve particular functions. For instance, the discourses of an ‘improved present’ and ‘racism as present but hidden’ are identified. In these discourses, I argue, racism is constructed as a problem of the past and therefore only a comparatively minor problem at present, or as present phenomenon, but manifesting itself in more subtle covert forms. I argue that these discourses may be considered as problematic in that they can be seen as potentially sustaining and perpetuating particular kinds of social relations. What I also wish to argue is that this kind of analysis demonstrates the need for a theorization of the subject. In this case, the need for racism to be understood from the perspective of these middle class second generation Bangladeshis. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Construct (python library · Covert · Discourse analysis · Discursive psychology · Epistemology · Linguistics · Phenomenon · Racism · Social constructionism · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Gender Studies · Social Psychology
The Pilgrim's Process
The limitations of whiteness and the boundaries of Englishness
Constructing Identity as a Second-Generation Cypriot Turkish in Australia
Teaching critical psychology of ‘race’ issues
Re‐presentation and resistance in the context of school exclusion
Constructions of `Culture' in Accounts of South Asian Women Survivors of Sexual Violence
Constructions of racism in the Australian parliamentary debates on asylum seekers
Minimizations and denials of racism by UK residents from Zimbabwe as occasioned linguistic practice
Discursive constructions of race talk among Black men and women living in the United States
Migration, postindustrialism and the globalized nation state
Between Two Cultures
Understanding Everyday Racism
The notion of ‘prejudice’
The authoritarian personality
Ethnic identity in adolescents and adults
Shifting Identities Shifting Racisms
Resisting Racism and Sexism in Academic Psychology
Yukinori Yanagi
Prejudice, categorization and particularization
Changing the Subject
Traditionalism in the Family
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2023 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |