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Subject(s)

• Racism—Latin America [Browse]
• Racism—Spain [Browse]
• Racism in language [Browse]
• Elite (Social sciences)—Attitudes [Browse]
• Communication [Browse]
• Latin America—Race relations [Browse]
• Spain—Race relations [Browse]
• Latin America—Ethnic relations [Browse]
• Spain—Ethnic relations [Browse]

Series

• Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 14. [More in this series]
• Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture, 1569-9463 ; v. 14 [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Racism and Discourse in Spain and Latin America
• Editorial page
• Title page
• LCC data
• dedication
• Table of contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Racism and discourse
• Racism as domination
• Racism as discrimination
• Racism as institution
• Politics
• The media
• Education and research
• Racism as racist beliefs
• Racism as discourse
• Conclusion
• 2. Elite discourse and racism in Spain
• Historical contexts
• Contemporary immigration and racism in Spain
• Elite racism
• The mass media
• Frequency
• General tendency
• Topics
• Gitanos and Gitanas
• Analysis of some examples
• Immigrant trafficking
• Crime
• Undocumented entry
• Racism on the job
• Employers
• Education
• Textbooks
• Analysis of two textbooks
• A Castillian textbook
• Conclusions
• Racism and the Law
• The Church
• Academia
• Concluding remarks
• 3. Elite discourse and racism in Latin America
• Introduction
• Some (approximate) statistics
• Regional and contextual differences
• Jews
• Other immigrant communities
• The agents of racism
• Discursive racism
• Political discourse
• Mexico
• Anti-indigenous racism in Mexico
• Parliamentary discourse
• Argentina
• The press
• Chile
• An example
• Brazil
• Everyday conversation
• Other countries
• Cuba
• Colombia
• Venezuela
• Bolivia
• Peru
• What to do?
• Notes
• References
• Appendix
• Name index
• Subject index
• The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture.

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ISBN

• 1-282-15665-9
• 9786612156656
• 90-272-9436-4

OCLC

150645930

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