도리스 레싱의 「빅토리아와 스테이브니 가족」에 재현된 인종 담론 (Racism in Doris Lessing’s “Victoria and the Staveneys”)

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This paper explores Doris Lessing’s perspective on color bar racism in her “Victoria and the Staveneys” in light of the concept of color-blind racism. By seeing that racial considerations including Blacks and Latinos shade almost everything in America, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva discusses racial inequality even though whites claim that race is no longer relevant. To explain contemporary racial inequality, he coins ‘color-blind racism’ which whites use in rationalizing minorities’s status as the product of market dynamics and cultural limitations. His argument that these new racism practices are subtle and nonracial is shown in Lessing’s “Victoria and the Staveneys.” Victoria as a black girl experiences black invisibility when she has to stay overnight in the family house of her white classmate, Thomas Staveney. His elder brother Edward who picks her up from the school consisting of minorities thinks she could be white. Furthermore, next morning the family forgets Victoria and her lunch box. After ten years, Victoria happens to meet Thomas whose interest is in only black girls. Victoria is like a nonracial commodity to Thomas who hides his racial interests without sounding racist. Victoria, who did not share her pregnancy with Thomas, introduces her six-year-old daughter Mary to the Staveneys due to her tough and poor life. The family accepts her but wants to re-orient Mary by sending her to a private school Victoria cannot afford, which arouses concerns about the potential to intercept Mary from Victoria’s life. This shows a new cultural racism, which helps Whites maintain their privilege by being shielded with color blindness.

영어초록

This paper explores Doris Lessing’s perspective on color bar racism in her “Victoria and the Staveneys” in light of the concept of color-blind racism. By seeing that racial considerations including Blacks and Latinos shade almost everything in America, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva discusses racial inequality even though whites claim that race is no longer relevant. To explain contemporary racial inequality, he coins ‘color-blind racism’ which whites use in rationalizing minorities’s status as the product of market dynamics and cultural limitations. His argument that these new racism practices are subtle and nonracial is shown in Lessing’s “Victoria and the Staveneys.” Victoria as a black girl experiences black invisibility when she has to stay overnight in the family house of her white classmate, Thomas Staveney. His elder brother Edward who picks her up from the school consisting of minorities thinks she could be white. Furthermore, next morning the family forgets Victoria and her lunch box. After ten years, Victoria happens to meet Thomas whose interest is in only black girls. Victoria is like a nonracial commodity to Thomas who hides his racial interests without sounding racist. Victoria, who did not share her pregnancy with Thomas, introduces her six-year-old daughter Mary to the Staveneys due to her tough and poor life. The family accepts her but wants to re-orient Mary by sending her to a private school Victoria cannot afford, which arouses concerns about the potential to intercept Mary from Victoria’s life. This shows a new cultural racism, which helps Whites maintain their privilege by being shielded with color blindness.

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