Victim accounts are valid data because racism is covert and routinely denied

Evidence

Experience is a central concept in the study of everyday racism. Accounts of racism locate the narrators as well as their experiences in the social context of their everyday lives, giving specificity and detail to events and inviting the narrator carefully to qualify subtle experiences of racism. Experiences of racism are a relevant source of information because racism is often expressed in covert ways and because racism is denied and mitigated by the dominant group. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1500

Categorization

• DEFINE: Grounds why everyday racism cannot be studied without attention to victim testimony — ‘everyday racism’ is defined partly by its covert expression and dominant-group denial.
• XREF: connects to: Racism’s covert expression makes victim experience a necessary data source; Racism statistics may measure the collectors, not the facts — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3138; Post-racial claims actually deny ongoing racism rather than racial identity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 147 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Racism’s covert expression makes victim experience a necessary data source #corroborates (0.95)
• Covert racism requires inferential argument to be recognized at all #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1505
• Denying that racism occurs functions as a key mechanism of everyday racial repression #corroborates (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1482
• Post-racial claims actually deny ongoing racism rather than racial identity #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 147
• Nondirective interviews can surface racism that institutions actively deny #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1498
• Racism statistics may measure the collectors, not the facts #qualifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3138
• Acceptable minority identity requires denying the racism one faces #corroborates (0.72)
• Exposing subtle racism as violating egalitarian norms can trigger repudiation #responds-to (0.70) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2190