“If a Muslim says ‘homo’, nothing gets done”: racist discourse and in-group identity construction in an LGBT youth group

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“If a Muslim says ‘homo’, nothing gets done”: racist discourse and in-group identity construction in an LGBT youth group

This article presents ethnographic data emerging from research with a group of LGBT young people, detailing the construction of a shared identity. Using discourse analysis, it shows how the group members position people of South Asian descent as a homogenous out-group, one framed as ‘other’ to their...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jones, Lucy
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2016
Subjects:	LGBT identity racist discourse homonormativity Islamophobia
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29755/

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