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Language and Race - Coggle Diagram

- - - - A belief that one's own racial or ethnic group is superior, or that other such groups represent a threat to one's cultural identity, racial identity, or economic well-being: (also) a belief that the members of different racial or ethnic groups possess specific characteristics, abilities, or qualities, which can be compared and evaluated. Hence: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against people of other racial or ethnic groups (or, more widely, of other nationalities) eso. based on such beliefs
    - - Social system of "ethnic" or "racial" inequality, just like sexism, or inequality based on class
    - - personal
      - institutional
        
        often foregrounded by states and the media
    - - dependent on power relations
      - dependent on minorities/majorities
      - -> Singles out Groups/draws boundaries between them
        
        we vs they
      - "Othering" (Hall 1997)
        
        Marking racial difference and the "other" complement each other
        
        difference
        
        is ambivalent
        
        can only be constructed through dialogue with the "Other"
        
        is important because it is essential to meaning (Saussure)
        
        is the basis of the symbolic order of what people call culture
        
        The "Other" is fundamental to the constitution of the self
        
        difference
        
        "The other is not like us"
        
        deviance
        
        the other behaves in a way that we feel is amoral
        
        threat
        
        the other is dangerous
      - afd
        
        allusion to something which could happen but without justification