"If an Apple Is a Foreign Apple You Have to Wash It Very Carefully": Youth Discourses on Racism

Autor/inn/en	Alemanji, Aminkeng A.; Dervin, Fred
Titel	"If an Apple Is a Foreign Apple You Have to Wash It Very Carefully": Youth Discourses on Racism
Quelle	In: Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 11 (2016) 3, S.199-212 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1746-1979
DOI	10.1177/1746197916648284
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Racial Bias; Social Justice; Workshops; Secondary School Students; Questioning Techniques; Student Attitudes; Family Influence; Individual Characteristics; Social Influences; Social Environment; Foreign Nationals; Foreign Students; Ethnocentrism; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Sekundarschüler; Befragungstechnik; Fragetechnik; Schülerverhalten; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Sozialer Einfluss; Soziales Umfeld; Ausländer; Ausländerin; Ethnozentrismus; Finnland
Abstract	This study offers a critique of the questions used in anti-racism discourse and education. It discusses the dangers of asking whether a person or group is racist and the possible consequences such questions could have on people's discourses and attitudes. Reactions or responses to the questions can vary from anger, defence of self against other, denial of racism and/or a strong far-right nationalistic feeling. The questions examined in this study were used in a workshop about racism in Finnish upper secondary schools. Our main interest lies in examining how questions produce or affect discourses, particularly the kinds of discourses that arise as the students reflect and respond to these questions in small groups. By analysing these discourses, we are able to get an insight into how students construct an understanding of racism vis-à-vis the issues of nationality, family, self and others. Our findings are suggestive of the fact that students' understanding of racism is often limited to individual acts of racism rather than an understanding of racism as a system of oppression. The article calls for the need to reassess the questions used in anti-racism discourse or education that do not necessarily lead to progressive discourse on the issue of racism. We also call for teachers using these questions to closely follow up how students interpret and discuss the topic of racism. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01