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Whitehead2015
BibType ARTICLE
Key Whitehead2015
Author(s) Kevin A. Whitehead
Title Everyday antiracism in action: preference organization in responses to racism
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Tag(s) EMCA, Membership Categorization Analysis, Racism, Preference organization
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Year 2015
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Journal Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Volume 34
Number 4
Pages 374–389
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DOI 10.1177/0261927X15586433
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Abstract

This article examines features of preference organization in disaffiliative responses to possibly racist actions, drawing on a corpus of more than 120 hours of recorded interactions from South African radio call-in shows. My analysis demonstrates how features of dispreferred turn shapes provide producers of possibly racist actions with opportunities to withdraw or back down from them. In cases where these opportunities are not taken up, subsequent responses may progressively include more features of preferred turn shapes. Responses may also include features of preferred turn shapes from the outset, thereby treating the prior actions as unequivocally racist. Responses that treat prior actions as such, however, also recurrently exhibit features of dispreference, thereby displaying speakers’ orientations to “cross-cutting preferences” in responding to racism, with disaffiliative responses being “dispreferred” actions in some senses, but “preferred” actions in others. I conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for everyday antiracism in interactional settings.

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