This study examines how the figure of the white ally is constructed on Facebook via raciolinguistic chronotopes of “white virtue,” which is the idea that whites who can identify racism are good people who cannot themselves be racist. Using data I collected from a public group called “White People ACTING for Change!” (WPAC) I use semiotic discourse analysis to highlight how participants produce histories of becoming a woke white ally towards an imagined future of anti-racist praxis in which “people of all colors” are equally positioned. These posts appear to promote inclusion and equality while actually recentering white perspectives on race and the racial difference by recruiting individualist understandings of race and racism. This study considers how allyship recruits liberal democratic discourses of racial difference such that white supremacy is reconstructed as an ordinary ideology of governance.

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白人盟友和觉醒的符号学：Facebook 上的白人美德的种族语言学 Chronotopes

这项研究探讨了如何通过“白人美德”的种族语言学年表在 Facebook 上构建白人盟友的形象，即能够识别种族主义的白人是好人，他们自己不能成为种族主义者。使用我从一个名为“白人为变革而行动！”的公共团体收集的数据。(WPAC) 我使用符号学话语分析来强调参与者如何产生成为觉醒的白人盟友的历史，以实现反种族主义实践的想象未来，其中“所有肤色的人”都处于同等地位。这些帖子似乎促进了包容和平等，同时实际上通过招募对种族和种族主义的个人主义理解来重新调整白人对种族和种族差异的看法。