A racial eliminativist analysis of ethnic discrimination : using a cultural studies approach to study BAME as an administrative collective category /
Social scientists seeking to understand the formative connection between social categories and social stratification often use interpretive textual analysis to infer a causal relationship. This approach is common within theoretical sociological studies of race, ethnicity, and racism. Normative evalu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd,
2024.
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| Series: | SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Social scientists seeking to understand the formative connection between social categories and social stratification often use interpretive textual analysis to infer a causal relationship. This approach is common within theoretical sociological studies of race, ethnicity, and racism. Normative evaluative judgments of racial group character are often interpreted as justifying prejudicial or privileged treatment of those groups in accordance with their specific location on the racial hierarchy. However, such approaches can reiterate racial reification and reproduce the status of race as an acceptable social category and valid analytical concept. This conceptual case study demonstrates how applying racial eliminativism-the critical theoretical connection that race should be eliminated-to appropriate social scientific research methods can both challenge the normativity of race and be used to challenge the epistemological, methodological, ontological, and ethical errors of racial thinking. I show how my racial eliminativist approach to research on the controversy surrounding the BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) collective category demonstrates the links between non-racial group nomenclature and an adequate understanding of ethnic discrimination and racism. This case study also aims to show the analytic opportunities and methodological challenges of using a racial eliminativist approach to social research on race, racialization, and racism as well as the valuable critical insights it can generate for an accurate, non-racially reified understanding of ethnic discrimination and inequality. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781529689297 1529689295 |