Pennant, April-Louise  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1963-7832 and Handford, Mike ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4224-3663
2025.
The discursive construction of Black British women graduates’ in-groups and out-groups: a corpus-informed intersectional analysis.
Corpora
20
(1)
, pp. 37-70.
10.3366/cor.2025.0327
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Abstract
‘Black’ as a racial identity is marked by diverse peoples in many settings who each have differing intersecting identities, status and lived experiences. Despite this, Black voices are often marginalised in predominantly white societies like Britain (Mowatt et al., 2013); such marginalisation is often compounded for Black women (Crenshaw, 1989). To interpret the nuanced ways in which Black British women discursively construct social identities within their educational experiences, this paper develops a novel theoretical framework of intracategorical intersectionality (McCall, 2005), etic and emic approaches (Tatli and Özbilgin, 2012), and in-group/out-group theory (Tajfel and Turner, 1979, 1986). By employing bottom-up corpus-assisted discourse analysis, we propose that Black British women graduates construct complex social identities in two main ways: ‘diversity within Blackness as a racial category’, and ‘differences in terms of gendered experiences’. The analysis also unearths a pattern of in-group self-evaluation that is predicated on perceived views of the out-group towards the in-group. The study thus contributes to discourse-analytical intersectional studies and to emic understandings of Black women’s voices in the context of their educational experiences and journeys, while also making a theoretical contribution to in-group and out-group theory.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| ISSN: | 1749-5032 |
| Funders: | ESRC |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 1 March 2024 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 14 February 2024 |
| Last Modified: | 29 May 2025 12:00 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/166736 |
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