Race trouble: Attending to race and racism in online interaction

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dc.contributor.authorDurrheim, Kevin
dc.contributor.authorGreener, Ross
dc.contributor.authorWhitehead, Kevin A
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-06T06:47:08Z
dc.date.available2014-11-06T06:47:08Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.departmentPsychology
dc.description.abstractThis article advocates the concept of Race Trouble as a way of synthesizing variation in racial discourse, and as a way of studying how social interaction and institutional life continue to be organized by conceptions of “race” and “racism”. Our analysis of an online discussion at a South African University about the defensibility of a characterization of (black) student protesters as “savages” revealed a number of familiar strategies: participants avoided explicit racism, denied racism, and denied racism on behalf of others. However, the aim of analysis was not to identify the “real” racism, but to show how race and racism were used in the interaction to develop perspectives on transformation in the institution, to produce social division in the University, and to create ambivalently racialized and racializing subject positions. We demonstrate how, especially through uses of deracialized discourse, participants’ actions were observably shaped by the potential ways in which others could hear “race” and “racism”. Race trouble thus became manifest through racial suggestion, allusion, innuendo and implication. We conclude with a call to social psychologists to study the ways in which meanings of “race” and “racism” are forged and contested in relation to each other.en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.identifier.citationDurrheim, K., Greener, R., & Whitehead, K. A. (2014). Race trouble: Attending to race and racism in online interaction. British Journal of Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12070en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2044-8309
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/15835
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Human and Community Development
dc.subjectRaceen_ZA
dc.subjectRacism
dc.subjectRace trouble
dc.subjectOnline interactions
dc.titleRace trouble: Attending to race and racism in online interactionen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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