Racism and Discourse in Latin America (Perspectives on a Multiracial America)

Teun A. van Dijk (Editor), Neyla Graciela Pardo Abril, Marta Casaus Arzu, Carlos Belvedere, Luisana Bisbe, Adriana Bolivar, Miguel Bolivar Chollett, Roberto Briceno-Leon, Corina Courtis, Sergio Caggiano, Marta Casaús Arzú, Adriana Bolívar, Miguel Bolívar Chollett, Roberto Briceño-León, Diego Casaravilla, Sandra Soler Castillo, Ronny Velásquez, Paulo Vinicius Baptista da Silva, Alicia Castellanos Guerrero, Gerardo Halpern, Jun Ishibashi, Jorge Gómez Izquierdo, Nora Kaplan, Diana Lenton, María Eugenia Merino, Esteban Emilio Mosonyi, Mauricio Pilleux, Francisco Pineda, Daniel Quilaqueo, Fúlvia Rosemberg, Berta San Martin, Roberto Zariquiey, Virginia Zavala, and Teun A Dijk (Editor)

Racism and Discourse in Latin America investigates how public discourse is involved in the daily reproduction of racism in Latin America. The essays examine political discourse, mass media discourse, textbooks and other forms of text, and talk by the white symbolic elites, looking at the ways these discourses express and confirm prejudices against indigenous people and against people from African descent. The essays show that ethnic and racial inequality in Latin America continue to exacerbate the chasm between the rich and the poor, despite formal progress in the rights of minorities during the last decades. Teun A. van Dijk brings together a multidisciplinary team of linguists and social scientists from eight Latin American countries (Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru), creating the first work in English that provides comprehensive insight into discursive racism across Latin America.

• ISBN10: 0739127276
• ISBN13: 9780739127278
• Publish Date: 26 October 2009
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Lexington Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 354
• Language: English