Stories about racist incidents follow a five-part narrative structure

Evidence

Accounts, verbal reconstructions of experiences with racism, are likely to include (some of) the following information: context (where did it happen, when, who were involved?); complication (what went wrong?); evaluation (was it racism?); argumentation (why do you think it was racism?); and reaction (what did you do about it?). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1501

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Frames the analytical toolkit: context, complication, evaluation, argumentation, reaction as the anatomy of a racism narrative.

Related

• Racism accounts share a recurrent narrative structure across contexts. (similarity 0.92)
• Personal stories uniquely reveal racism’s cumulative emotional toll (similarity 0.83)
• Recognizing racism requires unstated normative knowledge of how an event should have gone. (similarity 0.79)