Everyday Antiracism in Action: Preference Organization in Responses to Racism

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dc.contributor.authorWhitehead, Kevin A
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-18T17:00:54Z
dc.date.available2015-05-18T17:00:54Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.departmentPsychology
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines features of preference organization in disaffiliative responses to possibly racist actions, drawing on a corpus of over 120 hours of recorded interactions from South African radio call-in shows. My analysis demonstrates how features of dispreferred turn shapes provide producers of possibly racist actions with opportunities to withdraw or back down from them. In cases where these opportunities are not taken up, subsequent responses may progressively include more features of preferred turn shapes. Responses may also include features of preferred turn shapes from the outset, thereby treating the prior actions as unequivocally racist. Responses that treat prior actions as such, however, also recurrently exhibit features of dispreference, thereby displaying speakers’ orientations to “cross-cutting preferences” in responding to racism, with disaffiliative responses being “dispreferred” actions in some senses but “preferred” actions in others. I conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for everyday antiracism in interactional settings.en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.identifier.citationWhitehead, K. A. (2015). Everyday antiracism in action: Preference organization in responses to racism. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1177/0261927X15586433.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1552-6526
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/17795
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSageen_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Human and Community Development
dc.subjectRacismen_ZA
dc.subjectAntiracism
dc.subjectInteraction
dc.subjectConversation analysis
dc.subjectPreference organization
dc.titleEveryday Antiracism in Action: Preference Organization in Responses to Racismen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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