Through and beyond race
Games of proximity and distance in interviews about the experience of racism
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14428/emulations.42.05Keywords:
racism, racialization, discrimination, methodology, qualitative research, descendants of migrantsAbstract
This article examines the experiences of racism of racialized university graduates through an original methodological device, which involves a team of interviewers perceived as white and non-white. The article first analyses the subtle and plural expressions of racial proximity in the interview – how the sense of shared racial belonging emerges or not and how this affects the relational dynamics at work – and their effects on the ease and way of denouncing racism and mobilizing racial categories. A second moment of the article reveals how race is articulated with other social relations – of class, gender and age – which in some cases distance racial proximity as well as racism and may come to the fore in defining the interview relationship.