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Yasmin Jiwani, Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Race, Gender and Violence (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 2006)
YASMIN JIWANI OFFERS a persuasive interpretation of how media representations of violence sustain hierarchies of dominance through what she calls the discursive denial of systemic racism and sexism. Jiwani's primary concern is the perpetuation of racial and gender inequality in Canadian government policy and the mass media over the past 20 years. But Discourses of Denial is also about identity, and how the normalization of these discourses of denial affects the lived experiences of girls and women of colour in Canada. Using a Foucauldian approach which focuses on "structures of power and the discursive devices used to maintain them," (xiii) Discourses of Denial reveals how news media and government policies are not only gendered and racialized, but are also the corollaries of colonization and its legacy of violence, Jiwani provides great insight into contemporary social relations on both intimate and institutional levels by identifying and mapping the complex and interconnected terrain of racism, sexism, and violence embedded in everyday negotiations, discourses, and texts.
Discourses of Denial is a rich and generally succinct book, organized into four sections. The first addresses the theoretical and methodological frameworks used in her analysis. Although Jiwani claims that she is not writing... |
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