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A mixed-method study of Flemish millennials’ use of and attitudes towards 'nigga'
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Abstract
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| In the United States, discussions about appropriate language use in regard to people of colour are omnipresent in both academic literature and in popular and mass media. Two of the terms that are discussed most often are nigger and nigga. In the past decade, the latter term, nigga, has popped up in Dutch language use in Belgium as well, mostly in youngsters’ speech. In light of the relatively undiscussed nature of this term in Dutch academic research, this article focuses on Millennials in Flanders and their use of and attitudes towards this term by means of a mixed-method study design which combines quantitative online survey results with qualitative in-depth interviews. As a conclusion, this study somewhat paradoxically finds that, although Flemish Millennials have nuanced and mixed attitudes towards the use of the term and would find it acceptable in certain situations, they also report to refrain from ever using it themselves, which suggests the term's powerful potential as a means of negative identity construction. Additionally, the results indicate that the Flemish Millennials partaking in the study resort to a Black-White dichotomy when discussing the use of the term, which implies a tendency of ingroup-outgroup thinking in the assessment of the appropriateness of the term's use. |
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English
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DiGeSt : journal of diversity and gender studies. - Ghent, 2014, currens
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Publication
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Ghent
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Academia Press
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2019
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2593-0273
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2593-0281
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DOI
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10.11116/DIGEST.6.1.4
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6
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(2019)
, p. 71-90
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