Afro-diasporan racial discourse in Germany

Author:

Ajagbe Samsondeen1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany

Abstract

This paper investigates the racial discourse in the Afro-diaspora group in Germany. It uses the ‘discourse-historical approach’ – a strand of Critical Discourse Analysis – for the three-dimensional analysis of language biographical data of 67 African migrants in Germany. The study provides African migrants’ accounts of racism, identifies four discursive strategies, and then examines the semantics of a counter-racialisation term developed to cope with racism. The study finds Afro-diaspora racial discourse as a site for confronting the racism problem, legitimising the race idea, and contingent on migrants’ access to material resources in Germany. Furthermore, the term ‘fake-oyinbo’ indicates an ability to use simple linguistic terms in an intended way of racial categorisation within race relations thinking. The paper concludes that Afro-diasporans’ racial discourse is a ‘grassroots’ minority discourse revealing a counter-racialisation linguistic action while explaining and justifying the condition of the ordinary black minority.

Funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Sociology and Political Science,Language and Linguistics,Communication

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