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“If a Muslim says ‘homo’, nothing gets done”: Racist discourse and in-group identity construction in an LGBT youth group
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This article presents ethnographic data emerging from research with a group of LGBT young people, detailing the construction of a shared identity. Using discourse analysis, it shows how the group members position people of South Asian descent as a homogenous out-group, one framed as ‘other’ to their own in-group identity of ‘non-Asian’ due to the assumption that Asian people are homophobic. It is argued that this very local form of identity construction is facilitated by broader discourses of Islamophobia, as well as homonormative ideologies positioning gay people as white. The article therefore provides evidence to support Bucholtz & Hall's (2005) claim that identity positioning relates not only to the interactional moment and the norms of a given ethnographic context, but that it also encompasses macro-level discourses and ideologies. It also, however, reveals the pervasiveness of Islamophobic discourses in Britain today, and the marginalisation of LGBT people of colour. (LGBT identity, racist discourse, homonormativity, Islamophobia)*
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“This is shown, for example, in my earlier work analysing identity construction within a queer British youth group, where the young people's LGBTQ+ positionality was informed by both their whiteness and their situatedness in a conservative town (Jones, 2016).”
From ‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens (2025) · cites this paper as Jones, 2016
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“Specifically, I found that the young people used racist discourse to position themselves as comparatively more legitimate than their South Asian peers, to whom they attributed the homophobia they experienced daily, thus constructing an oppositional -and specifically non-Asianqueer identity.”
From ‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens (2025) · cites this paper as Jones, 2016
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“like Dylan, she places homophobia and racism in opposition, a discourse structure I have also found in other young queer people's identity construction (Jones, 2016).”
From ‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens (2025) · cites this paper as Jones, 2016
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- Authors
- Jones, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Nottingham (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Jones, Lucy
- ORCID
- Jones, Lucy
- Venue
- Language in Society
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2016-01-05
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 113-133
- ISSN
- 0047-4045 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8013
- OpenAlex
- W2253229577
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 21.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- Locations
- Language in Society (publishedVersion)
- Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Media Discourse and Social Analysis
- Keywords
- LGBTQ youth, racist discourse, Islamophobia, homonormativity, South Asian Muslims, othering, identity positioning, homophobia
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