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Social Science Discrimination & Race Relations

Discourses of Domination

Racial Bias in the Canadian English-Language Press

by (author) Frances Henry & Carol Tator

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2002
Category
Discrimination & Race Relations, Journalism, Communication Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802084576
    Publish Date
    May 2002
    List Price
    $50.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802036001
    Publish Date
    May 2002
    List Price
    $84.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442673946
    Publish Date
    Apr 2002
    List Price
    $84.00

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Discourses of Domination explores the issue of racial bias in the Canadian English-language press. Applying critical discourse analysis as their principal methodology, Frances Henry and Carol Tator investigate the way in which the media produce, reproduce, and disseminate racist thinking through language and discourse.

The core of the text consists of a series of case studies, including several high-profile cases involving the alleged criminality of persons of colour. Using these case studies as a springboard, Henry and Tator demonstrate how the media construct people of colour, immigrants, refugees, and First Nations peoples as 'others' – those who live outside the 'imagined community' of Canada. Their analysis ultimately points to the tension between democratic liberalism as a defining characteristic of Canadian society and the collective racist ideology that is embedded in the dominant culture. Discourses of Domination thus provides a greater understanding of newer forms of racism, located within systems of cultural production and representation.

About the authors

Frances Henry is professor emerita at York University and a member of the Royal Society of Canada specializing in Caribbean studies. She is author of The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities and He Had the Power: Pa Neezer, the Orisha King of Trinidad. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Canadian Studies and Canadian Ethnic Studies.

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Carol Tator is Course Director in the Department of Anthropology at York University.

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