Confronting Institutional Discrimination in a Color-Blind World

Eric O. Silva; Christopher J. Gillmann; KeyAnna L. Tate

doi:10.18778/1733-8077.14.1.05

Authors

Eric O. Silva Georgia Southern University, U.S.A.
Christopher J. Gillmann
KeyAnna L. Tate

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.14.1.05

Keywords:

Color-Blind Racism, Framing, Laminations, Indian Mascots, Immigration

Abstract

This article builds on the scholarship on color-blind ideology by examining discourse challenging two cases of institutional discrimination (the criminalization of unauthorized immigrants and sports teams’ use of Native American symbolism). Our research questions are first, what general options do anti-racists have for navigating norms of color-blindness in the public sphere? Second, how does context influence how people confront institutional discrimination? Based on an ethnographic content analysis of 165 letters to the editor published in American newspapers, we find that opponents of institutional discrimination have the choice of addressing one of four laminations. In each lamination, authors acknowledge framings of racial discrimination that are unacknowledged in previous ones. In the abstraction lamination, authors do not recognize race and ethnicity. In the pigmentation lamination, authors identify race and ethnicity, but not discrimination. Authors in the discrimination lamination acknowledge the practice is harmful to a particular racial or ethnic group, and the contextualization lamination lends added dimensionality to the discourse. A comparison of the laminations of pro-immigrant and anti-mascot letters demonstrates varying willingness to acknowledge racial discrimination. Namely, the pro-immigrant discourse was more color-blind than anti-mascot criticism. We consider the potential causes of these findings and offer suggestions for future research in the conclusion

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Author Biographies

Eric O. Silva, Georgia Southern University, U.S.A.

Eric O. Silva is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Georgia Southern University. He studies how people construct their position on contentious issues such as immigration, Indian mascots, and creationism in the public sphere.

Christopher J. Gillmann

Christopher J. Gillmann earned his MA in Social Science from Georgia Southern University in 2015. His scholarly interests include examining the connection between neoliberalism and the consolidation of media and financial corporations, as well as the political effects of this relationship.

KeyAnna L. Tate

KeyAnna L. Tate earned her BS in Psychology from Georgia Southern University in 2016.

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