TY - JOUR
T1 - The framing of Sikh Americans
T2 - White Christonormativity, discursive hyper(in)visibilities, and racialization of religion
AU - Kaur-Gill, Satveer
AU - Ramasubramanian, Srividya
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 National Communication Association.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - We use discourse tracing analysis to examine Sikh media representations across four U.S. newspapers in the last two decades. Guided by the theory of hyper(in)visibility, our study focuses on how representations are othered and erased through various types of discursive hyperinvisibilities, such as myopic, faulty, hazy, and selective visibilities deployed within White Christonormative structures of interpretation. Such othering and erasure then result in the looping of media reports emphasizing stereotypes, misidentification, homogenization, and simplification over 18 years, reinforcing the racialization of religious minorities in a unidimensional way that perpetuates minoritization through discursive tactics of hyper(in)visibility of multiple marginalized groups. These representations have implications that trickle down into real-world intercultural interactions across various spheres of life, including multicultural community settings and workplace interactions, and extend to policy implications such as surveillance architectures. The practical consequences result in intercultural communication outcomes involving hate speech, violence, stereotyping, and microaggressions.
AB - We use discourse tracing analysis to examine Sikh media representations across four U.S. newspapers in the last two decades. Guided by the theory of hyper(in)visibility, our study focuses on how representations are othered and erased through various types of discursive hyperinvisibilities, such as myopic, faulty, hazy, and selective visibilities deployed within White Christonormative structures of interpretation. Such othering and erasure then result in the looping of media reports emphasizing stereotypes, misidentification, homogenization, and simplification over 18 years, reinforcing the racialization of religious minorities in a unidimensional way that perpetuates minoritization through discursive tactics of hyper(in)visibility of multiple marginalized groups. These representations have implications that trickle down into real-world intercultural interactions across various spheres of life, including multicultural community settings and workplace interactions, and extend to policy implications such as surveillance architectures. The practical consequences result in intercultural communication outcomes involving hate speech, violence, stereotyping, and microaggressions.
KW - hyper(in)visibility
KW - Islamophobia
KW - media justice
KW - Sikhs
KW - White Christonormativity
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U2 - 10.1080/17513057.2024.2394203
DO - 10.1080/17513057.2024.2394203
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85204030770
SN - 1751-3057
VL - 17
SP - 337
EP - 364
JO - Journal of International and Intercultural Communication
JF - Journal of International and Intercultural Communication
IS - 4
ER -