Elite Discourse and Racism (SAGE SERIES ON RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS) - Hardcover

Dijk, Teun Adrianus Van

 
9780803950702: Elite Discourse and Racism (SAGE SERIES ON RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0803950705 ISBN 13: 9780803950702
Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

This volume takes a critical approach to the study of prejudice and discrimination by focusing on the role of elites in the reproduction of racism. Van Dijk's main thesis is that racism in North America and Europe is primarily `top down' and preformulated by the elites, and is not only - as the elites would have it - a `popular' phenomenon.

The book opens with a wide-ranging study of the ways parliamentarians in the Netherlands, Germany, France, the UK and the USA debate immigration, refugees and civil rights, subtly contributing to the negative image of minorities. It goes on to examine how managers of international corporations talk about affirmative action and minority employment. A chapter on racism in social science te

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Teun A. van Dijk is a Visiting Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. From 1980 to 2006 he held a personal chair as Professor of Discourse Studies at the University of Amsterdam. A world leading scholar of discourse studies and author of over 250 books and articles, he edits the SAGE journals Disourse & Society, Discourse Studies, and Discourse and Communication.

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Verlag
SAGE Publications Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803950705
ISBN 13 
9780803950702
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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