A journalistic construction of racism, race and “the other” in the midst of a denunciation of racism in francophone Belgium

In the French-speaking Belgian media, in 2018, a Black weathercaster’s video denouncing racism led to a unique moment when a large number of articles carried “antiracist” discourses. Based on a press corpus focusing on the event (261 articles), we decided to use critical discourse analysis in order to observe the social representations that are conveyed by the journalistic discourse. We developed an analysis grid based mostly on the literature to understand how those discourses pictured alterity, race and racism. In a constructivist approach inspired by Nancy Fraser’s (1992) view of the public... Mehr ...