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<p>This article offers three methodological and analytical insights to enhance scholars’ analyses of how everyday social actors make meaning of race, racism, and the process of racialization. These insights highlight the value in: (1) operationalizing concepts related to race, racism, and racialization in interview questions (2) applying visual research methods such as photo–elicitation interviews, especially those that incorporate images of celebratory and other ritualistic cultural events, and (3) employing visual resonance as an analytic device to delineate the schemata interpreters mobilize to evaluate the legitimacy of racialized imagery. The paper draws on qualitative research conducted in Santiago, Chile and Cartagena, Colombia. The strategies discussed in both cases are beneficial for unpacking how people make meaning of race, racism, and the process of racialization in places where cultural narratives suggest that society is not mired by systems of racial oppression and where people claim to be less wedded to white–black dyadic notions of racial identity, such as Latin America.</p>

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Decoding race, racialization, and racism: making meaning through interviews, photo–elicitation, and visual resonance

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    2026年2月3日

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  • Melissa M. Valle

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This article offers three methodological and analytical insights to enhance scholars’ analyses of how everyday social actors make meaning of race, racism, and the process of racialization. These insights highlight the value in: (1) operationalizing concepts related to race, racism, and racialization in interview questions (2) applying visual research methods such as photo–elicitation interviews, especially those that incorporate images of celebratory and other ritualistic cultural events, and (3) employing visual resonance as an analytic device to delineate the schemata interpreters mobilize to evaluate the legitimacy of racialized imagery. The paper draws on qualitative research conducted in Santiago, Chile and Cartagena, Colombia. The strategies discussed in both cases are beneficial for unpacking how people make meaning of race, racism, and the process of racialization in places where cultural narratives suggest that society is not mired by systems of racial oppression and where people claim to be less wedded to white–black dyadic notions of racial identity, such as Latin America.