Talking about racism, avoiding race, talking on behalf of the nation. The portrayal of racism in the local press
Dhume, Fabrice
Talking about racism, avoiding race, talking on behalf of the nation. The portrayal of racism in the local press - 2018.
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On the basis of a study carried out in Nord–Pas-de-Calais region, this article analyses the representation of the public problem of racism in the local printed press, through the example of La Voix du Nord. Analysing a corpus of articles written in 2000’s, it highlights the narrative work undertaken by the media to define racism. That narrative work is modeled on a moral anti-racism that actually relates to a national ideology. The article shows how public discourse tends to reformulate the question of race (and its principle of division) in a idealized nation (and its presumption of consensual unity), with at least two consequences: firstly, the materiality of racism gets dissolved in the process, favoring imagined racism, a reversed reflection of the national imagined community. Secondly, in doing so, a relative racism transfers into the national ideology.
Talking about racism, avoiding race, talking on behalf of the nation. The portrayal of racism in the local press - 2018.
36
On the basis of a study carried out in Nord–Pas-de-Calais region, this article analyses the representation of the public problem of racism in the local printed press, through the example of La Voix du Nord. Analysing a corpus of articles written in 2000’s, it highlights the narrative work undertaken by the media to define racism. That narrative work is modeled on a moral anti-racism that actually relates to a national ideology. The article shows how public discourse tends to reformulate the question of race (and its principle of division) in a idealized nation (and its presumption of consensual unity), with at least two consequences: firstly, the materiality of racism gets dissolved in the process, favoring imagined racism, a reversed reflection of the national imagined community. Secondly, in doing so, a relative racism transfers into the national ideology.
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