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Title: | Denying Racism: Discursive Strategies Used by the South African Media |
Authors: | Durrheim, Kevin Quaye, Michale Whitehead, Kevin Kriel, Anita |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | Critical Arts: A Journal of Media Studies |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 167-186 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | racism press commissions of inquiry Literature, Mass Media and the Press |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560040585310111 |
Abstract: | In 1999 the South African media was the subject of a South African Human Rights Commission inquiry into racism. This article explores the discursive practices deployed by mainstream newspapers in response to these accusations of racism. It shows how several interlocking strategies of denial were used to remodel the field of racist practices and representations into a terrain suited to preserving white privilege. Specifically, the media used strategies of splitting, (dis)locating, relativizing, trivializing, de-racializing, and, ultimately, reversing racism. By constructing the terrain of racism in this way, the South African media were able to sidestep criticism by developing 'acceptable' arguments for reasonable prejudice that marginalize black experience. Bibliogr., note, sum. [Journal abstract] |