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Racism and Discourse in Latin America
Racism and Discourse in Latin America
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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 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 | Oct 26 2009 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 354 |
| ISBN | 9780739142783 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Series | Perspectives on a Multiracial America |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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