“They were mostly sitting back and staying quiet”: A critical race discourse analysis of racial voyeurism in cross-racial intergroup dialogues

ABSTRACT

This study utilises a critical race discourse analysis to understand how cross-racial intergroup dialogue (IGD) participants perceive racial voyeurism, a form of racism within their dialogue course. IGD is a face-to-face, co-facilitated interaction between two or more groups within a social identity-based conflict where participants form intergroup relationships, reflect critically and interpersonally, and build intergroup alliances. The discursive statements of participants analysed through critical race discourse analyses reveals how racism penetrates the IGD through race-evasiveness and the normalisation of Whiteness.

KEYWORDS:

• Intergroup dialogue
• racial voyeurism
• critical race theory
• discourse analysis

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