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- Title
Theorizing Micro-aggressions as Racism 3.0: Shifting the Discourse.
- Authors
FLERAS, AUGIE
- Abstract
Awareness is mounting of a new racialized discourse that promises to profoundly challenge how we think and talk about racism. Micro-aggressions consist of those words and interactions perceived as racist by racialized targets that rarely reflect vindictive intent yet inadvertently inflict insult or injury. A theorizing of micro-aggression as racism 3.0 secures a discursive framework that not only situates the definitional locus of racism within the lived-experiences of the micro-aggressed. It also re-positions the debate over who decides what counts as racism, what racisms count by transferring the focus of racism from a set of conditions to a claims-making process. This paper analyzes the distinction between racism 3.0 and racisms 1.0 and 2.0; explores the micro-aggression 'turn' that defines racism 3.0; examines micro-aggressions within the linguistic context of everyday racism; re-conceptualizes racism through the interpretive lens of claims-making ("racism-making"); and demonstrates how racism 3.0 offers a distinctive perspective for understanding contemporary racism. Data for this paper are drawn from a synthesis of existing sources.
- Subjects
MICROAGGRESSIONS; RACISM; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; VOCABULARY -- Social aspects; POWER (Social sciences); RACIALIZATION; DISCOURSE -- Social aspects
- Publication
Canadian Ethnic Studies, 2016, Vol 48, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0008-3496
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ces.2016.0011