This article addresses relationships between micro and macro aspects of language use through analyzing online interactions among neighbors discussing racism in their neighborhood. Membership categorization analysis supplemented with critical theory highlights how the ways neighbors name, characterize, and position categories orients to their rhetorical and identity goals (to construct reasonable stances, to seem not racist), which in turn motivates alignment with critical, folk, or colorblind ideologies of racism. Thus, ideologies do not determine interactional choices participants make, but rather are constituted by those choices. Findings also illustrate how discursive strategies such as reported speech, absurdity, three-part lists, and metadiscourse support ways that neighbors organize categories and achieve their aims. Additional contributions to this study include demonstrating the utility of membership categorization analysis for analyzing discourses of racism and providing practical insight into how racially diverse groups can have productive conversations about racism. (Racism, ideology, membership categorization analysis)*

本文通过分析邻居之间讨论其社区种族主义的在线互动，探讨语言使用的微观和宏观方面之间的关系。以批判理论为补充的成员分类分析突出了邻居命名、描述和定位类别的方式如何定位于他们的修辞和身份目标（构建合理的立场，看起来不是种族主义者），这反过来又促使与批评、民间或色盲的一致种族主义意识形态。因此，意识形态并不决定参与者做出的互动选择，而是由这些选择构成。研究结果还说明了话语策略（如报告的演讲、荒谬、三部分列表和元话语）如何支持邻居组织类别和实现其目标的方式。对这项研究的其他贡献包括展示成员分类分析在分析种族主义话语方面的效用，并提供关于种族多元化群体如何就种族主义进行富有成效的对话的实用见解。（种族主义、意识形态、成员分类分析）*