Racism does not change sides: racialized subjects, discourses, and everyday practices in the university context
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https://doi.org/10.5212/PraxEduc.v.21.26171.032Abstract
This article presents the results of a research project examining how racist discourses and practices operate from the perspective of students, faculty, and service staff at an Ecuadorian university. The methodology is mixed, combining social cartography and a Likert scale administered to 939 members of the university community. The findings reveal that racism is not limited to explicit acts but functions as a structural and everyday framework embedded in racialized bodies, particularly Afro-descendant bodies, which in this study are associated with service and subordinate roles. Stereotypes, prejudices, and symbolic hierarchies were identified as affecting dignity, recognition, and academic trajectories. The findings reveal tensions between institutional discourses of inclusion and practices that reproduce inequality, placing at the center of the analysis racialized bodies of support staff, historically made invisible in research on university racism.
Keywords: Racialized subjects. Discrimination. Symbolic disputes. Higher education.
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