Racism and Discourse

Mi-Cha Flubacher; Sibo R. Kanobana

doi:10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20045

Racism and Discourse

Mi-Cha Flubacher^*
, Sibo R. Kanobana

^*Corresponding author for this work

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In this entry on racism and discourse, we will first present a brief overview of studies on racism in discourse, that is, the attempt to uncover and locate racism in texts, utterances, and interactions as a way of combating racism. In the next step, we will address the epistemological phenomenon we term racism as discourse, that is, the racist conditions of discursive production that erase non-White forms of knowledge, knowledge production, and producers. It is therefore this shift from the individual (text, speaker) to the structural (discourse, epistemology) that we aim to discuss.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
Editors	Carol A. Chapelle
Publisher	Wiley
Pages	1-7
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20045
Publication status	Published - 26 Mar 2026

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racism
discourse
linguistics

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