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The Role of the Press in the Reproduction of Racism

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In this chapter, I provide a theoretical analysis of the role of the press in the reproduction of racism. Many empirical studies in many countries have shown that the media play an important role in expressing and spreading ethnic prejudice. And it is generally assumed that prejudice is one of the conditions of racist practices that define racism as the social system of ethnic power abuse. However, the relationships between media discourse and racism are generally assumed to exist, based on correlational evidence, without much detailed theoretical analysis of the precise linguistic, cognitive, and social nature of these relationships. A multidisciplinary approach to the study of the press as well as of racism is able to elucidate some of these relationships in a more explicit way.

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  1. Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, 138, Roc Boronat, 08018, Barcelona, Spain

    Teun A. van Dijk

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van Dijk, T.A. (2012). The Role of the Press in the Reproduction of Racism. In: Messer, M., Schroeder, R., Wodak, R. (eds) Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0950-2_2

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