Elite Discourse and Racism

This volume takes a critical approach to the study of prejudice and discrimination by focusing on the role of elites in the reproduction of racism. Van Dijks main thesis is that racism in North America and Europe is primarily `top down and preformulated by the elites and is not only - as the elites would have it - a `popular phenomenon. The book opens with a wide-ranging study of the ways parliamentarians in the Netherlands Germany France the UK and the USA debate immigration refugees and civil rights subtly contributing to the negative image of minorities. It goes on to examine how managers of international corporations talk about affirmative action and minority employment. A chapter on racism in social science te