“This does not mean that the majority of Belgians have become racist”: Valorisation of Belgium and Belgian journalists as antiracist amid a denunciation of racism in the press discourses

In 2018, a Black weathercaster’s video denouncing racism led to a unique moment in the French-speaking Belgian media, with a large number of articles carrying “antiracist” discourses. Based on a press corpus focusing on the event (112 articles), we decided to use critical discourse analysis in order to observe the social representations that are conveyed by the journalistic discourse. We developed a grid to investigate the construction of in-groups at several levels.In a constructivist approach inspired by Nancy Fraser’s (1992) view of the public sphere, media discourses can be seen as a recon... Mehr ...