Discourse is neither mere speech nor mere practice but meaning that shapes belief
Evidence
An adequate theory of racism is nonreductive in the sense that it does not limit racism to just ideology or just “visible” forms of discriminatory practices. The same is true for the way discourse is involved in racism. This is especially the case for “meanings” of discourse, and hence also for beliefs, that is, for cognition. Discourses are not only forms of interaction or social practices, but also express and convey meanings, and may thus influence our beliefs about immigrants or minorities. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1065
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Positions discourse as simultaneously interaction, meaning, and cognition — refusing the ideology-vs-practice split.
Related
- Theories of racism must treat discourse as cognition, not just practice (similarity 0.94)
- Racist discourse varies by context of production, not only by underlying beliefs (similarity 0.84)
- Racism is transmitted through discourse, not innate (similarity 0.84)
- Discourse analysis treats racism as reproduced through elite text and talk (similarity 0.84)
- Content analysis alone cannot explain how media discourse reproduces racism (similarity 0.84)
- Racist discourse adapts to context so similar prejudices get varying formulations (similarity 0.83)
- Elite public discourse is central to reproducing racism across society (similarity 0.83)
- Discourse collapses the thought-action divide and shapes how the West behaved toward others (similarity 0.82)
- Discourse constrains what can be thought about the Other (similarity 0.81)
- Discourse is a way of representing knowledge that constructs a topic while limiting alternatives (similarity 0.81)
- Elite discourse reproduces racism by shaping shared mental models of minorities (similarity 0.81)
- Discourses persist beyond their origins and carry unexamined assumptions forward. (similarity 0.81)
- Antiracist discourse defines whiteness through opposable racist attributes rather than skin color (similarity 0.80)
- Racism has a cognitive subsystem of shared mental models beyond visible acts (similarity 0.80)
- Discourses are systems of shared cultural meanings built from interlocking root metaphors. (similarity 0.80)