Racism Plays a Disappearing Act: Discourses of Denial in One Anti-Discrimination Campaign in Higher Education

Autor/inn/en	Gebhard, Amanda; Novotna, Gabriela; Carter, Heather; Oba, Funke
Titel	Racism Plays a Disappearing Act: Discourses of Denial in One Anti-Discrimination Campaign in Higher Education
Quelle	In: Whiteness and Education, 8 (2023) 2, S.229-247 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Gebhard, Amanda)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2379-3406
DOI	10.1080/23793406.2022.2072760
Schlagwörter	Racism; Social Justice; Intervention; Higher Education; Racial Discrimination; Foreign Countries; Consciousness Raising; Social Bias; Critical Race Theory; Information Dissemination; Program Effectiveness; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rassismus; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Racial bias; Ausland; Bewusstseinsbildung; Informationsverbreitung; Kanada
Abstract	This article responds to a university's anti-discrimination campaign, ostensibly launched to combat racism. Taking up poststructural principles and anchored in anti-racism literature, we employ a discourse analysis to examine the truth productions about racism circulated by the campaign, and the subject positions to which they give rise. We analyse the consequences and possibilities for anti-racist action in the light of our argument that the campaign produced the university as an always already anti-racist space, becoming a means to an end to meaningful action. Through themes of belonging, denial, innocence, colour-blindness, and erasure, we demonstrate that the messaging of the campaign aligns with national narratives about Canadian society as free of racial inequity. We bring readers to consider how an anti-discrimination campaign effectively delegitimised the need for anti-racist action, imploring future initiatives to guard against re-inscribing the very forms of inequality they purport to disrupt. (As Provided).
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