Elite public discourse is central to reproducing racism across society

Evidence

Teun A. van Dijk follows the discussion of multiculturalism with a masterful overview of developments regarding the role played by various forms of discourse in reproducing everyday as well as political understandings of race and racism. For van Dijk discourse involves a whole range of texts in addition to talk. This includes parliamentary debates, news reports, advertising, textbooks, films, and talk shows. Van Dijk is particularly concerned to subject “elite racism” to discourse analysis with a view to assessing what can be done to counter forms of racist discourse. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 647

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines discourse broadly to include institutional text genres and introduces ‘elite racism’ as a distinct object — vocabulary useful for definitional grounding.
• XREF: Echoes earlier vault material on discursive construction of race (Hall, discursive formations of racism). — connects to: Ethnopopulism frames elites as colluding with ethnic others to justify hardline measures. — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 41; Elite rhetoric substantially raises public conspiracy talk — Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent, American Conspiracy Theories, 679; Overt hate rhetoric becomes normalized once elite mainstream figures amplify it — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 653 (+4 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 647