Journalistic discourse and racial relations: a look at whiteness

Resumen

This article seeks to understand how the racial relations are built, structured and characterized inside the journalisticdiscourse having, as basis, the concept of whiteness. This term refers to the racial domination, where the dominant group(white), uses their point of view, permeated by the privileges and symbolic power, to qualify all the others different fromthem. The approach is qualitative, supported by Discourse Analysis, using the implied and the silencing as categories ofanalysis. We used the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, published from January to July 2020, using racism as a researchfilter, to compose the corpus. Conceptualizations about journalistic discourse, racism and whiteness are addressed toestablish the theoretical framework. The following results were found in the analysis: it is possible to identify the presenceof the discourse of whiteness in the journalistic field, but in a very subtle way. Within the journalistic discourse, thediscussion about the discourse of whiteness is silenced by the enunciators.