scholarly journals A Discursive Examination of White Americans’ Attitudes about White-Black Interracial Marriages in USA

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Ilham Malki
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Interracial Marriages ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
Black Marriages ◽  
Close Relatives

The primary objective of this article is to manifest by means of discourse analysis the attitudes of White Americans towards White-Black interracial marriages. The research draws on qualitative analysis of the discourse of some white Americans to find out the genuine convictions they bear about interracial unions, especially those incorporating Blacks and Whites. Regardless of the fact that White Americans have asserted their approval of White-Black marriages, the results of the study reveal that some White-Americans are still not in favour of their close relatives marrying outside their own race. As Van Dijk (1992) postulates, one of the distinctive peculiarities of contemporary racism discourse is its denial. On accounts of rigid constraints posed upon overt expression of racist perspectives, individuals bring about a set of discursive strategies that enable the deliverance of negative constructs without being trapped by racism charges. In addition to the denial of racism, the results of the research disclose various strategic choices through which white Americans legitimize their views towards white-black interracial marriages. Such choices embark on justifications, denying, excuses, positive self-presentation, negative other-presentation, and blaming the victim. (Van Dijk: 1992)

scholarly journals Exploring the Discursive Construction of Obedience: An Analysis of Application Letters for the Position of Executioner in Hitler’s Germany

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Leisser ◽  
Katie Bray ◽  
Anaruth Hernández ◽  
Doha Nasr
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
National Socialist State ◽  
Interdisciplinary Framework ◽  
Research Questions

AbstractThis article presents an empirical investigation into the construction of obedience in letters of applications mailed to National Socialist authorities for the position of executioner between the years 1933 and 1945. To this end, a corpus of 178 letters of application was compiled, annotated, and analyzed using the corpus analysis toolkits Antconc and Lancsbox. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the corpus was conducted. The findings were related to and interpreted from the perspectives of applied legal linguistics, stylistics, and legal history. The project aims to explore the construction of a shared discourse of obedience and how this discourse is operative in the letters of application. Drawing on an explorative interdisciplinary framework, this project seeks to answer the following research questions: Is obedience a construct in applicants’ letters of motivation? Which linguistic devices and discursive strategies are used by the executioners to express submission to officials of the National Socialist state? Are there variants of the construction of submission by applicants?

Worth a Thousand Words: The Study of Visual Gendered Self-Presentation on Twitter

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Andrew J. A. Mattan ◽  
Tamara A. Small
Keyword(s):  
Television Advertising ◽  
Visual Environment ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Superiority Effect ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Picture Superiority Effect ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Picture Superiority

Abstract The picture superiority effect suggests that a single photograph can communicate a significant amount of political information to voters. Accordingly, politicians must make strategic choices in their self-presentation, particularly when considering how to respond to gender-based stereotypes. Strategic stereotype theory suggests that politicians will either emphasize or rescind gender-based stereotypes depending on whether they believe them to be advantageous to their political image. While the literature on gendered self-presentation is largely confined to television advertising, there is a growing literature focused on the online environment. In this research note, we develop a methodological framework to assess gender-based stereotypes in a purely visual environment. We test the framework using photographs from the Twitter feeds of the main party leaders in the 2018 Ontario election. The note concludes by reflecting on the methodological challenges of examining gender in visual political content online.

The One-Drop Rule in Reverse? Interracial Marriages in Napoleonic and Restoration France

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Heuer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
French Army ◽  
French Government ◽  
Interracial Marriages ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
The One ◽  
Ministerial Decree

In the early nineteenth century, an obscure rural policeman petitioned the French government with an unusual story. Charles Fanaye had served with Napoleon's armies in Egypt. Chased by Mameluks, he was rescued in the nick of time by a black Ethiopian woman and hidden in her home. Threatened in turn by the Mameluks, Marie-Hélène (as the woman came to be called) threw in her lot with the French army and followed Fanaye to France. The couple then sought to wed. They easily overcame religious barriers when Marie-Héléne was baptized in the Cathedral of Avignon. But another obstacle was harder to overcome: an 1803 ministerial decree banned marriage between blacks and whites. Though Fanaye and Marie-Héléne begged for an exception, the decree would plague them for the next sixteen years of their romance.

scholarly journals Idols of Promotion: The Triumph of Self-Branding in an Age of Precarity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke Erin Duffy ◽  
Jefferson Pooley
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Precarious Employment ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Popular Magazine ◽  
Contemporary Media

By analyzing the “mass idols” (Lowenthal, 1944) of contemporary media culture, this study contributes to our understanding of popular communication, branding, and social media self-presentation. Leo Lowenthal, in his well-known analysis of popular magazine biographies, identified a marked shift in mass-mediated exemplars of success: from self-made industrialists and politicians (idols of production) to screen stars and athletes (idols of consumption). Adapting his approach, we draw upon a qualitative analysis of magazine biographies (People and Time, n = 127) and social media bios (Instagram and Twitter, n = 200), supplemented by an inventory of television talk show guests (n = 462). Today's idols, we show, blend Lowenthal's predecessor types: they hail from the sphere of consumption, but get described –and describe themselves –in production terms. We term these new figures “idols of promotion,” and contend that their stories of self-made success –the celebrations of promotional pluck –are parables for making it in a precarious employment economy.

‘Frustrated women invite the immigrants to Europe’: Intersection of (xeno-) racism and sexism in online discussions on gender aspects of immigration

2020 ◽  
pp. 136754942097320
Author(s):  
Lenka Vochocová
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Sexual Attraction ◽  
Online News ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Gender Aspects ◽  
And Gender

This article presents discursive strategies of sexual othering aimed at excluding the alleged European proponents of immigration from the ‘domestic’ culture and sexual norms and representing them as traitors of Europe driven by their sexual attraction to immigrants. A qualitative analysis of comments related to mainstream online news articles on gender aspects of immigration reveals how sexism and both old and new forms of racism intersect in online debates on the topic. The anti-immigration discussants express worries about the endangering of the European sexual and gender norms and define themselves in opposition not only to immigrants but also to European actors perceived as pro-immigration. While representing their gender culture as superior to the gender culture of immigrants, as based on respect towards women, they express openly disrespectful and sexist thoughts, treat women as inferior, and justify and normalize sexual violence and verbal sexual abuse.

scholarly journals Discursive Strategies and Politics of (Neo-)colonialism: A Textual Analysis of Saadat Hassan Manto’s Letters to Uncle Sam

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Inayat Ullah ◽  
Iman Aib
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Independent State ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Research Findings

Colonialism has been such a multifaceted and complicated phenomenon that it often juxtaposed the culture of the colonized in simultaneous assimilation of, and resistance to, the culture of the colonizers. Embedded in the theory of Post colonialism, this research aims at carrying out a qualitative analysis of discursive strategies used in Saadat Hassan Manto’s literary work Letters to Uncle Sam from a neo-colonial perspective. It seeks to highlight the issues of globalization and the effects that it engendered upon the then newly-established independent state of Pakistan. The research findings conclude that globalization has resulted in putting an end to the so-called purity of culture. Manto, therefore, explicitly satirizes the super power (read the United States of America) for its hidden agendas of manipulating and exploiting the economic system as well as the cultural beliefs of Pakistan under the mask of prospering nations by building a global market to create a new means of dominance that works through consent.

GENERATIONAL CHANGES IN RACIAL INEQUALITY IN OCCUPATIONAL ATTAINMENT, 1950–2010

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franklin D. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Generation X ◽  
White Women ◽  
Baby Boom ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Occupational Attainment ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Baby Boom Generation ◽  
Blacks And Whites

AbstractThis paper analyzes age and cohort changes in the occupational attainment of Blacks and Whites born in successive decades from 1910 to 1979. Occupational attainment is operationalized as “occupational returns to education” and “earnings returns to occupation.” The primary objective is to determine whether the relative occupational attainment of Blacks of the baby-boom generation and Generation X improved over that of their great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents. The results indicate that Blacks and Whites, and men and women improved their occupational attainment levels over those of previous birth cohorts. However, neither Black men of the baby-boom generation nor those of Generation X improved their occupational attainment relative to White men of the same age and born in the same decade. Moreover, on a per capita basis, Black men’s occupational status declined for the most recent birth cohorts due in large part to joblessness starting with members of the 1940 birth cohort, which increased progressively with each successive birth cohort. On the other hand, Black women seem to have improved their occupational status relative to White women, but the improvements fluctuated over the decades. These findings are discussed in relation to possible causes and limitations of this analysis.

scholarly journals Family honor, cultural norms and social networking: Strategic choices in the visual self-presentation of young Indian Muslim women

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Smeeta Mishra ◽  
Surhita Basu
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Family Expectations ◽  
Social Reputation ◽  
A Site

This study explores how young Indian Muslim women negotiate multiple influences while posting their own photographs on social networking sites. In depth interviews showed that these women made a strategic effort not to disrupt the social reputation of their families with the nature of their online visual presentations. While their photographs presented an opportunity for individual expression, they also became a site for simultaneous adherence to family expectations, religious norms and patriarchal constructions of femininity dominant in offline settings. Except three respondents who considered themselves outliers in their community, all emphasized the need to upload “nice” pictures on social networking sites that do not give off any signs of sexual assertiveness. Most respondents seemed to carry the responsibility of upholding the “honor” of their families, a requirement in their offline life, to digital settings as well. However, the respondents also managed to exercise a degree of personal choice and individual agency within the dominant framework aided by the privacy settings offered by social networking sites.

scholarly journals Sobre ausências e silenciamentos: uma análise dos sentidos do Sistema Único de Saúde no Caderno Vida, do Diário do Nordeste

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Clarisse Castro Cavalcante ◽  
Kátia Lerner
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Health System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
The Senses

Sobre ausências e silenciamentos: uma análise dos sentidos do Sistema Único de Saúde no Caderno Vida, do Diário do Nordeste On absences and silences: an analysis of the senses of the Unified Health System in the Caderno Vida, Diário do Nordeste ResumoEste artigo tem como objetivo compreender os modos pelos quais o jornal Diário do Nordeste construiu sentidos sobre o Sistema Único de Saúde no seu suplemento semanal dedicado ao tema saúde, o Caderno Vida. Utilizamos como método uma análise qualitativa de seis textos jornalísticos que continham a presença do SUS, baseada no referencial teórico-metodológico da Semiologia dos Discursos Sociais. Entre os principais resultados, observou-se que o Diário do Nordeste constituiu modos de falar sobre o SUS a partir de estratégias discursivas de crítica, tecidas através da visibilidade conferida à ausência de tecnologias nos serviços de saúde e à precariedade no financiamento; e de silenciamentos sobre o SUS a partir de sua não nomeação na divulgação de serviços e políticas de saúde, especialmente quando positivos e valorizados na esfera pública.Palavras-chaves: Mídia; Cotidiano; Jornalismo; Discursos; Sentidos AbstractThis article aims to understand the ways in which the Diário do Nordeste newspaper has constructed senses about the Unified Health System in its weekly supplement dedicated to health, the “Caderno Vida”. We used as a method a qualitative analysis of six journalistic texts that contained the presence of SUS, based on the theoretical and methodological reference of the Semiology of Social Discourses. Among the main results, it was observed that the Diário do Nordeste constituted ways of talking about SUS based on discursive strategies of criticism, woven through the visibility given to the absence of technologies in health services and the precariousness of financing; and of silencing about the SUS from its non-appointment in the dissemination of health services and policies, especially when positive and valued in the public sphere.Keywords: Media; Daily; Journalism; Discourses; Senses  

scholarly journals Microsatellite Marker Development in Peony using Next Generation Sequencing

2013 ◽  
Vol 138 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Gilmore ◽  
Nahla Bassil ◽  
April Nyberg ◽  
Brian Knaus ◽  
Don Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Simple Sequence Repeat ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Early Summer ◽  
Sequence Information ◽  
Marker Development ◽  
Cut Flower ◽  
Secondary Objective ◽  
Close Relatives ◽  
Generation Sequencing ◽  
Simple Sequence

Peonies (Paeonia), the grand garden perennial of spring and early summer, are economically important to the international cut flower market. Herbaceous peonies (Paeonia section Paeonia), tree peonies (Paeonia section Moutan), and intersectional crosses between the two types (Itoh Paeonia hybrids) are of interest to gardeners, growers, and nursery producers. Thousands of peony cultivars exist and identity is traditionally determined by experienced horticulturists knowledgeable in plant and bloom characteristics. With DNA extraction possible during any time of the year, molecular markers can provide genotype identity confirmation for dormant roots or mature post-bloom plants. The primary objective of our research was to rapidly and inexpensively develop microsatellite markers in a range of Paeonia species using barcoded Illumina libraries. A secondary objective was to apply these simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers to fingerprint 93 accessions that include tree, intersectional, and herbaceous peonies. We used 21 primers to distinguish cultivars and their close relatives. Also from our sequence information, greater than 9000 primers were designed and are made available.

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