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Article: Discourses of "democratic racism" in the talk of South Asian Canadian women.
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- Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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Abstract
Despite societal norms of tolerance and diversity, covert "democratic" racism (Henry and Tator 2006) flourishes in Canada on individual and systemic levels. Democratic racism, an ideology that allows the coexistence of both egalitarian values and racist attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours, is often expressed by the dominant group through powerful discourses that shape the social reality for many minority individuals. However, racist discourses, such as blaming the target of racism and denying that racism exists, are often manifested very subtly. In this article, we use democratic racism as a framework to investigate the multiple ways in which our ...
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