and at a theoretical level, he is unable to move beyond officer’s assertions, constructions of his mixed identity as negative. Emmy: Emmy as her Racialised Appearance. mum, she used to not know how to do Black hair so she used to brush ‘my out my hair, and then it, so it was like a frizzy thing at the back of my head, and like, kids at school used to put pencils in (90-94) it’ one boy, calling me a nigger, and another boy, calling me, a monkey ‘one, with a moustache, and nothing really happened, so.’ (312-314) experiences highlight the mechanisms of racialised perception in Emmy’s action. In experiences, her racialised self is the key factor in how she Emmy’s is perceived by others. She is her racialised self though her appearance, which leads to perceptions of her as a sub-human Black person based on ideologies of Blackness. Her experiences demonstrate the multi-layered nature of the process of racialised perception in relation to dominant ideologies. It is something that is recognised in an individual and placed upon an individual. Emmy has no control over her racialised appearance, and based on this, she has no control over the negative racialisations of herself which are shaped through ideology.
officer’s assertions, and at a theoretical level, he is unable to move beyond constructions of his mixed identity as negative. Emmy: Emmy as her Racialised Appearance. ‘my mum, she used to not know how to do Black hair so she used to brush out my hair, and then it, so it was like a frizzy thing at the back of my head, and like, kids at school used to put pencils in it’ (90-94) ‘one, one boy, calling me a nigger, and another boy, calling me, a monkey with a moustache, and nothing really happened, so.’ (312-314) Emmy’s experiences highlight the mechanisms of racialised perception in action. In Emmy’s experiences, her racialised self is the key factor in how she is perceived by others. She is her racialised self though her appearance, which leads to perceptions of her as a sub-human Black person based on ideologies of Blackness. Her experiences demonstrate the multi-layered nature of the process of racialised perception in relation to dominant ideologies. It is something that is recognised in an individual and placed upon an individual. Emmy has no control over her racialised appearance, and based on this, she has no control over the negative racialisations of herself which are shaped through ideology.
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