Vasia Tsami
List of John Benjamins publications for which Vasia Tsami plays a role.
Articles
2024 Chapter 2. Racist discourses of discrimination and assimilation in an antiracist corpus Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse, Archakis, Argiris and Villy Tsakona (eds.), pp. 41–70 | Chapter
Racist views against migrants are not only disseminated via hate speech, which overtly demonizes the ‘foreigners’, but also via antiracist discourse, which, although designed to fight racism, may end up reproducing inequalities. This ambiguity is captured in the concept of liquid racism (Weaver… read more
2024 Chapter 10. Racist and antiracist discourse in Greek migrant/refugee jokes: A multiliteracies teaching proposal about liquid racism Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse, Archakis, Argiris and Villy Tsakona (eds.), pp. 253–276 | Chapter
Following the multiliteracies model (Kalantzis and Cope 2012a), we design a critical teaching proposal focusing on migrant/refugee jokes. Although these jokes have an antiracist intention, they end up reproducing racist views, bringing to the surface a modern and subtle kind of racism, i.e.… read more