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By using the methods of podcast ethnography, I explore how young adults make everyday racism visible and model moderate resistance in three podcasts produced in Finland. I also study to what extent and how anti-racist activities reflect different dimensions of (dis)trust. The results indicate that, although podcast producers made visible discriminatory and othering practices both in everyday encounters and institutional settings, they used rather optimistic perspectives in their anti-racist media activism to highlight their agency. I identified three reconstructive trust-increasing anti-racist strategies produced collectively through podcast discussions, contributing to the development of both social trust models and self-confidence: (1) strategy of empathic recognition, (2) strategy of historical cultural awareness, and (3) empowering biographical strategy. By using perspectives of trust research, I show how these strategies can serve all as a model for anti-racist practices in resisting “white innocence ” Wekker, G. 2016. White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race. Duke University Press as well as challenging racial stereotypes and cultural prejudice.
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