Elite Discourse and Racism
This volume takes a critical approach to the study of prejudice and discrimination by focusing on the role of elites in the reproduction of racism. Van Dijk's main thesis is that racism in North America and Europe is primarily `top down' and preformulated by the elites, and is not only - as the elites would have it - a `popular' phenomenon.The book opens with a wide-ranging study of the ways parliamentarians in the Netherlands, Germany, France, the UK and the USA debate immigration, refugees and civil rights, subtly contributing to the negative image of minorities. It goes on to examine how managers of international corporations talk about af…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8039-5071-9
- EAN: 9780803950719
- Produktnummer: 1662152
- Verlag: Sage Pubn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.9 cm 426 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 6
- Gewicht: 426
Über den Autor
is a Visiting Professor atUniversitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. From 1980 to 2006 he held a personalchair as Professor of Discourse Studies at the University of Amsterdam. A worldleading scholar of discourse studies and author of over 250 books and articles,he edits the SAGE journals Disourse &Society, Discourse Studies, and Discourseand Communication.
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