Some Racist Slips about Quebec in English Canada Between 1995 and 1998

ID:	HARP-544
Title:	Some Racist Slips about Quebec in English Canada Between 1995 and 1998
Source:	Canadian Ethnic Studies, 2000, Vol. 32 Issue 2, p1, 26p
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Year:	2000
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Keywords:	anti-discrimination, Canada, human rights, non-discrimination, racial discrimination, racism, civil and political rights, violence, media
Abstract:	This article analyses, from a selection of newspapers articles, some “racist tendencies” that appeared in English Canada since the 1995 referendum. Examining several events in the media (“cases” Rakoff, Lawrence Martin, Diane Francis, Gerry Weiner, David Levine …), the analysis shows how marginalized discourses went through several stages of racism (Wieviorka 1991), leading to a slightly more systematic racist opinion within the “Rest of Canada,” and to a verbal violence that occurs often enough that the problem can no longer be considered secondary. In a particular case (Levine), racism even became a principle of action and mobilization which reached several (journalistic, political, popular) spheres of society. To illustrate the spread, the banalization, and the legitimization of a certain racist discourse (which uses universal arguments to delegitimize the “Other”), the analysis emphasizes the link between discourse and theory in the light of recent scientific works which define the structure, the discursive elements, and the mechanisms for the production of racism.
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