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Publication details [#58653]

Hastie, Brianne and David Rimmington. 2014. ‘200 years of white affirmative action’: White privilege discourse in discussions of racial inequality. Discourse & Society 25 (2) : 186–204.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argument | courtroom | critical discourse analysis | privilege | racism

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study considers how respondents in online comments concerning a US Supreme Court presiding over racial discrimination employ arguments on privilege in naturalistic debates. Especially, four cumulative strategies may be used to construct a privilege discourse to challenge inequity and racism.