Dom som lever på socialen & muslimska terrorister - En analys av rasistiska yttringar bland svenska gymnasiestudenter

The essay discusses underlying racism in the Swedish community and has, as a specific purpose, to illustrate and analyze how images of immigrants are constructed in a local setting. The questions at issue are: What established conceptions about racism exist and how are immigrants described by the youth in Sweden? Which racist manifestations are evident? To answer these questions, twelve interviews with students from an upper secondary school in Lund are done. Discourse analysis and other central aspects to alienation such as categorization and stereotyping, concepts about ?the Others? and underlying racism, have been used to analyze the interviews. The analysis shows that it is no longer meaningful to talk about the ideological racism when more neutral concepts as culture and religion are used to categorize and distinguish between people. Racist manifestations exist among my respondents but are not interpreted as that by them. The definition of racism, that shows that the everyday understanding of the concept is not particularly balanced which results in that the underlying racism is being denied and that unequal relations of power are created and maintained in the society. Attention and confession from the majority is necessary for a societal improvement