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Archakis, Argiris. 2018. The representations of racism in immigrant students’ essays in Greece. The ‘hybrid balance’ between legitimizing and resistance identities. Pragmatics 28 (1) : 1–28.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

Racism as a means for accomplishing homogeneity is at the center of this study which draws on Critical Discourse Analysis and focuses on descriptions of racist behaviors included in immigrant students’ school essays. The study investigates how the dominant assimilative and homogenizing discourse operates in Greece and how immigrant students position themselves towards this dominant discourse. The analysis focuses on the ways the immigrant students of this sample construct legitimizing and hybrid resistance identities. It demonstrates that legitimizing identities are found in the vast majority of the essays of the data due to the racist behaviors experienced by immigrant people. On the other hand, the explicit description of such behaviors appears only in few essays. The study argues that in these few essays, via referring to racist behaviors of majority people against them, immigrant students manage to build hybrid resistance identities.