ABSTRACT
In an attempt to illustrate some of the more hidden or tacit mechanisms of discrimination and othering that took place in schools, this chapter looks closely both at what was said and how it was said. The chapter presents selected extracts of group conversations between children, analysed through the lens of Critical Race Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis. It has shown that Muslim children did not suffer from religious discrimination only but had to contend with multiple forms of tacit discriminatory discourses, often hard to pinpoint because of their discursive framing as non-offensive. The exchanges presented in this chapter show how children articulated multiple and contradictory discourses of tolerance and threat, which emanated at different levels. The combination of Critical Race Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis offered a pertinent framework that helped unearth the more tacit forms of discrimination in interactions between children, and the wider discourses, which underpin them.
