Racism and Discourse in Latin America

Teun A. Van Dijk (Anthology Editor) , Neyla Graciela Pardo Abril (Contributor) , Marta Casaús Arzú (Contributor) , Carlos Belvedere (Contributor) , Luisana Bisbe (Contributor) , Adriana Bolívar (Contributor) ,
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Racism and Discourse in Latin America

Teun A. Van Dijk (Anthology Editor) , Neyla Graciela Pardo Abril (Contributor) , Marta Casaús Arzú (Contributor) , Carlos Belvedere (Contributor) , Luisana Bisbe (Contributor) , Adriana Bolívar (Contributor) ,
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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 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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Racism and Discourse in Latin America: An Introduction
Chapter 2. A Portrait of the Argentine Situation
Chapter 3. Black and White People in the Brazilian Media: Racist Discourse and Practices of Resistance
Chapter 4. Discursive Racism in Chile: The Mapuche Case
Chapter 5. Discourse and Racism in Colombia: Five Centuries of Invisibility and Exclusion
Chapter 6. Social Practices and Racist Discourse of the Guatemalan Power Elites
Chapter 7. Racist Discourse in Mexico
Chapter 8. "I segregate you because your lack of education offends me": An Approach to Racist Discourse in Contemporary Peru
Chapter 9. Discourse and Racism in Venezuela: A "Café con Leche" Country

Product details

Published 26 Oct 2009
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 354
ISBN 9780739142783
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

TD
Anthology Editor

Teun A. Van Dijk

NA
Contributor

Neyla Graciela Pardo Abril

MA
Contributor

Marta Casaús Arzú

CB
Contributor

Carlos Belvedere

LB
Contributor

Luisana Bisbe

AB
Contributor

Adriana Bolívar

MC
Contributor

Miguel Bolívar Chollett

RB
Contributor

Roberto Briceño-León

CC
Contributor

Corina Courtis

SC
Contributor

Sergio Caggiano

DC
Contributor

Diego Casaravilla

SC
Contributor

Sandra Soler Castillo

RV
Contributor

Ronny Velásquez

PS
Contributor

Paulo Vinicius Baptista da Silva

AG
Contributor

Alicia Castellanos Guerrero

GH
Contributor

Gerardo Halpern

JI
Contributor

Jun Ishibashi

JI
Contributor

Jorge Gómez Izquierdo

NK
Contributor

Nora Kaplan

DL
Contributor

Diana Lenton

MM
Contributor

María Eugenia Merino

EM
Contributor

Esteban Emilio Mosonyi

MP
Contributor

Mauricio Pilleux

FP
Contributor

Francisco Pineda

DQ
Contributor

Daniel Quilaqueo

FR
Contributor

Fúlvia Rosemberg

BM
Contributor

Berta San Martin

TD
Contributor

Teun A. van Dijk

RZ
Contributor

Roberto Zariquiey

VZ
Contributor

Virginia Zavala

Reviews

  • Dutch communications scholar Van Dijk (Pompeu Fabra Univ., Barcelona, Spain) has been studying what he terms 'discursive racism' for decades. His publications range from the seminal 1993 monograph Elite Discourse and Racism (CH, Sep'93, 31-0615), in which he focused on how elites in North America and Europe reproduce white domination and racism through speeches and writings, to the present edited volume, which examines how racism is learned, articulated, and communicated in Latin America. From his base at a Spanish university, he assembled a large cast of international, multicultural, and interdisciplinary linguists and social scientists to examine how racism is reproduced daily through public discourse in eight Latin American countries: Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru. Because discourse by definition concerns public speeches and published writings, it necessarily focuses on the style and substance of elite expressions....Recommended. All levels/libraries.

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