'A police officer shot a Black man': Racial categorization, racism, and mundane culpability in news reports of police shootings of black people in the United States of …

N Shrikant, R Sambaraju - British Journal of Social Psychology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The current socio‐political circumstances in the United States (US), constituted by the
increasing visibility of police shootings of Black people, present a compelling moment for …

Membership categorization analysis, race, and racism

N Shrikant, R Sambaraju - Qualitative Research in Psychology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA) has the potential to highlight the
dynamic ways that people make race relevant to everyday life. However, existing MCA …

“My mother did not have civil rights under the law”: Family derived race categories in negotiating positions on Critical Race Theory

R Sambaraju - Journal of Social Issues, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
How do persons negotiate the relevance of historic racial injustice for contemporary
concerns? In this paper, I show that persons could develop and use racial categorizations in …

Racism in the “colony”: Towards appreciating race fluidity and racialization in social psychology of racism

R Sambaraju - Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Race is a significant means through which individuals and groups relate to each other. A
problematic instance of its significance is colonialism and all the destruction it brought with it …

Intimate racism from one's partner in young intercultural couples

MA Yampolsky, A Rossini, J Pagé… - Journal of Social …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Racism from one's partner is a highly sensitive phenomenon that has received little research
attention. The current research introduces the concept of “intimate racism” to refer to racism …

Definitional boundaries of discrimination: Tools for deciding what constitutes discrimination (and what doesn't)

K Greenland, K West, C Van Laar - Journal of Applied Social …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
What counts as discrimination? Sometimes an event has to be a deliberate act of hate
before it is described as discrimination. Sometimes “discrimination” can include much more …

'They attacked you just like that': Negotiating racial epistemics in making claims about racism

R Sambaraju - British Journal of Social Psychology, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Social psychological research on race and racism has shown that claims about racism are
not always accepted or received as valid reports. In this paper, I offer racial epistemics as …

Identifying the Unidentified Race: A Study of Normative Features of Commonsense Knowledge of Racism in Asian Members' Online Interaction

T Zhang - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article adopts an interactionist approach to examine the normative features and the
everyday reproduction of commonsense knowledge regarding race and racism in social …

“Race Trouble”: Competing Accounts in a Trial About Anti-White Racism

K Tracy - Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
To understand one type of race trouble, this study examines a federal civil trial brought by a
white employee suing her African American supervisor for creating a racially hostile work …

Destabilizing racial discourses in casual talk-in-interaction

H Blain, C Diskin-Holdaway - Applied Linguistics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Racialized descriptions are a constant practice in our societies and a fundamental aspect of
racial discourses. This paper uses conversation analytic tools within a Foucauldian …