Silence as Protection: Construction and Deconstruction of Violent Subjects in Media Portrayals of South-Asian and White Incidents of Domestic Violence
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper focuses on the ways the West silences South-Asian women experiencing domestic \nviolence in the diaspora. My literature review illuminated a gap in the dominant literature where \nthe phenomenon of silence is focused within the South-Asian community and rarely contextualized within the power system of racism in the West. Through a review of critical literature, it was clear that we must shift our gaze to how the West silences South-Asian women, due to the presence of the ‘White external gaze’ onto the community. This literature suggests that the members of the South-Asian community do not have control over how an issue within the community is taken up by the West to perpetuate racism once the issue is publicly talked about. This research paper includes an analysis of this ‘White external gaze’ in regards to how exactly it contributes to the silencing of South-Asian women. Western news media was selected as a form of the ‘White external gaze’ due to the influence its ‘talk’ has over the public and its context in the West, where White superiority exists. I conducted a comparative Foucauldian discourse analysis of news materials discussing three incidents of domestic violence involving South-Asian subjects and three involving White subjects. Each set included one incident from Canada, the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK). Through my analysis, I found domestic violence being generalized within the South-Asian community and individualized within the White community as well as the subject production of the violent South-Asian man and the distancing of the White man from their perpetuated violence. This research paper has proved the racism that is perpetuated by the media, a form of the ‘White external gaze’, when speaking about incidents of violence within the South-Asian community. As a result, this project provides insight into how the silence of South-Asian women is a means to protect their community from the racism perpetuated by the ‘White external gaze’ within the West.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.032 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".