Discursive deracialization is a term used for the rhetorical removal of 'race' from potentially racially motivated arguments.Goodman, S., & Burke, S. (2011). Discursive deracialization in talk about asylum seeking. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 21(2), 111-123. doi:10.1002/casp.1065 Earlier known as "deracialization of discourse",Reeves, 1983 discursive deracialization is where the opposition to, or negative representations of, minority out-groups is attributed to reasons other than race.Augoustinos, M., & Every, D. (2007). The language of "race" and prejudice: A discourse of denial, reason, and liberal-practical politics. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 26(2), 123-141. doi:10.1177/0261927X07300075Capdevila, R., & Callaghan, J. (2008). ‘It’s not racist. It’s common sense’. A critical analysis of political discourse around asylum and immigration in the UK. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 18, 1–16.Lynn, N., & Lea, S. (2003). ‘A phantom menace and the new apartheid’: The social construction of asylum-seekers in the United Kingdom. Discourse and Society, 14, 425–452. Discourse does not have to be explicitly racist to have discriminatory, exclusionary and oppressive effects.Wetherell, M., & Potter, J. (1992). Mapping the language of racism. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf. Downplaying race as an explanatory construct may allow for the continued institutionalisation of racial exclusion.Augoustinos, M., & Every, D. (2007). The language of "race" and prejudice: A discourse of denial, reason, and liberal-practical politics. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 26(2), 123-141. doi:10.1177/0261927X07300075. Goodman and BurkeGoodman, S., & Burke, S. (2011). Discursive deracialization in talk about asylum seeking. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 21(2), 111-123. doi:10.1002/casp.1065 point out that economic, religious and incompatibility arguments are used in the discursive deracialization of opposition to asylum-seeking (in the UK). These explanatory arguments may be viewed in light of an increasing emphasis on national belonging and discourses of nation in the discursive deracialization of racist discourses.Augoustinos, M., & Every, D. (2007). The language of "race" and prejudice: A discourse of denial, reason, and liberal-practical politics. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 26(2), 123-141. doi:10.1177/0261927X07300075.
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