Affiliation:
1. University of Ioannina
2. University of Patras
Abstract
Racist views against migrants are not only disseminated via hate speech, which overtly demonizes the ‘foreigners’, but also via antiracist discourse, which, although designed to fight racism, may end up reproducing inequalities. This ambiguity is captured in the concept of liquid racism (Weaver 2016). To examine liquid racism in Greek public discourse, we have compiled an antiracist corpus (around 501.000 words). The aim of this chapter is to show how this corpus was created and to explore how racist views infiltrate antiracist discourse. Adopting a critical perspective, and drawing on Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar (1994) and on the discursive practices of Reisigl and Wodak’s Discourse-Historical Approach (2001), we detected in our corpus two main discourses connected to racism: discrimination and assimilation. Through a qualitative and quantitative analysis, we argue that antiracist discourse, which programmatically fights against racist views, usually ends up perpetuating racist intentions and views, covering and reproducing inequalities.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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