Att skildra De Andra
om rasism och elitens användande av etnicitet i svensk massmediediskurs
Massmedia och språkEtnicitetDiskursanalysRasismEthnicityMass media and languageDiscourse analysisRacismSociologySociologiCultural anthropologyEthnologyKulturantropologiEtnologiSocial Sciences
The essay, which is solely theoretical to its form, presents a critical view upon the unproblematized usage of the concept of ethnicity in the Swedish mass media discourse. Theories of critical discourse analysis and post colonial nature is applied to and used to analyze what ethnicity really means. The essay also provides an insight in the functions and power of mass media in Sweden today to understand why ethnicity is so widely used, and what consequences it may bring upon the systematically excluded "other" and the society as a whole.