Playing with Oppression: Latinx Students’ Use of Humor to Navigate Assumed Racism

IF 2.1 2区 心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL Social Psychology Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-19 DOI:10.1177/01902725231177643
Jienian Zhang
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This article demonstrates how a group of Latinx students in a suburban high school use humor as an interactional strategy to negotiate and sometimes resist perceived racial meanings. Using ethnography, I find two distinct types of ambiguity central in such humor: (1) ambiguity in humor and (2) ambiguity in situational cues that prompt humor. The students interpret these often-ambiguous situational cues as relevant to racism and then use humor to play with assumed racism. Furthermore, they use humor in several distinct but not mutually exclusive forms: (1) preemptive testing, (2) constructing insider/outsider status, and (3) self-(re)defining. By integrating role theories in the analysis, I show the theoretical importance of analyzing both the social cues that prompt the humor and the humor itself. I suggest that such humorous interactions ultimately illuminate racial inequalities that usually remain undetected in interactions or in broader social contexts.
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玩压迫:拉丁裔学生用幽默来应对假定的种族主义
这篇文章展示了一所郊区高中的一群拉丁裔学生如何使用幽默作为一种互动策略来谈判,有时还会抵制所感知到的种族含义。使用人种学,我发现这种幽默中有两种不同类型的模糊性:(1)幽默的模糊性;(2)引发幽默的情境线索的模糊性。学生们将这些经常模棱两可的情景线索解释为与种族主义有关,然后用幽默来玩假定的种族主义。此外,他们以几种不同但不相互排斥的形式使用幽默:(1)先发制人的测试,(2)构建局内人/局外人身份,(3)自我(重新)定义。通过在分析中整合角色理论,我展示了分析促使幽默产生的社会线索和幽默本身的理论重要性。我认为,这种幽默的互动最终阐明了通常在互动或更广泛的社会背景中未被发现的种族不平等。
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Social Psychology Quarterly
Social Psychology Quarterly PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-
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