Racist discourse varies by context of production, not only by underlying beliefs

Evidence

As will also appear several times below, dominant discourses do not merely exercise their influence out of context. When defining discourse as communicative events, we also need to take into account, for example, the overall social domains in which they are used (politics, media, education); the global social actions being accomplished by them (legislation, education); the local actions they enact; the current setting of time, place, and circumstances; the participants involved, as well as their many social and communicative roles and (e.g., ethnic) group membership; and not least the beliefs and goals of these participants. These and other properties of the social situation of the communicative event will influence virtually all properties of text and talk, especially those properties that can vary, such as their style: how things are said. … In other words, the large variety of racist discourses in society not only reflect variable underlying social representations, but especially also adapt to different contexts of production: who says what, where, when, and with what goals. A theory of context also explains in part why, despite the dominant ethnic consensus, not all talk on minorities will be the same. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1071

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s use of racial framing and discourse analysis (Hall, race as floating signifier): this supplies the contextualist mechanism behind variable racist articulation. — connects to: Racist discourse tends to favor the ingroup and derogate the outgroup — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1062; Racist discourse adapts to context so similar prejudices get varying formulations — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1071; Racism gets reorganized by each mode of production rather than being constant — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 633 (+7 more)
• DEFINE: A clean definitional anchor distinguishing discourse from mere ‘text’ or stated belief via context-dependence.

Broader Connections

• Racist discourse adapts to context so similar prejudices get varying formulations #corroborates (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1071
• Racism operates as a changing process rather than a fixed project #expands (0.80)
• Racism varies across a spectrum of distinct configurations rather than being one fixed phenomenon. #expands (0.78) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 97
• Racism gets reorganized by each mode of production rather than being constant #expands (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 633
• Racism accounts share a recurrent narrative structure across contexts. #qualifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1501
• The hesitations in speech reveal the layered registers of racism #expands (0.75) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 575
• Racism persists but has shifted from blatant to unconscious subtle forms #expands (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 143
• Racist expression is rarely clear or unequivocal #qualifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1908