ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of Condor's understanding of discourse as an object of inquiry, outlining her contribution and showing how she anticipated future developments. Like other discursive social psychologists writing at the time, Condor highlighted a number of overlapping features of discourse, which is referred as rhetoric, language, and interaction. The chapter considers how discourse theory understands the links between race stereotypes and racism. Social psychologists have traditionally thought of stereotypes as originating in the heads of individuals, Condor appreciated that they originated in the interactional context between people. Condor outlines the rhetorical and ideological effects of such race discourse, just as Billig's companion article highlighted the effects of discourse that denied prejudice. The main target of Condor's critique is cognitive social psychology. She views social cognition as racist discourse. The problem that she identified with the social cognitive approach was the reification of race categories.
