Racism is learned through discourse, beginning in school textbooks

Evidence

These and many other properties of textbooks obviously are hardly an ideal preparation for the acquisition of ethnic beliefs that prepare children adequately for contemporary, increasingly multicultural, and diverse societies in Western Europe, North America, and elsewhere where Europeans are dominant over non-Europeans. As is the case for the media and the adult population, textbooks and lessons based on them form the discursive crucible for the everyday reproduction of biased ethnic beliefs and the often discriminatory practices based on them. We have argued that racism is learned and not natural or innate. This learning process already begins at school. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1108

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to vault claims about racism being socially constructed/learned rather than innate, and to the racialization discourse literature. This sharpens the ‘race as social construct’ definition by grounding it in a specific learning mechanism. — connects to: Racism is socially learned and reproduced through discourse rather than innate; Discourse analysis treats racism as reproduced through elite text and talk — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 647; Racism is learned at school, not innate — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1108 (+6 more)
• DEFINE: ‘Discursive crucible’ names textbooks as the site where biased ethnic beliefs are reproduced — useful grounding for how racialized discourse operates through institutions.

Broader Connections

• Racism is socially learned and reproduced through discourse rather than innate #corroborates (0.95)
• Racism is transmitted through discourse, not innate #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1055
• Discourse analysis treats racism as reproduced through elite text and talk #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 647
• Elite discourse reproduces racism by shaping shared mental models of minorities #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1121
• Racism is learned at school, not innate #exemplifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1108
• Textbooks framed white-supremacy campaigns as spontaneous black unrest #exemplifies (0.75) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 862
• Elite public discourse is central to reproducing racism across society #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 647
• Children absorb their teachers’ racism through internalized pedagogies of observation #expands (0.75) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 244
• Racist knowledge enters mainstream as commonsense once crafted by recurring strategies #expands (0.70)