Reading Black Beauty Shame in Talk: An Ethnomethodologically Inclined Discourse Analysis

Abstract

Looking for shame when it is not uttered motivated an analysis that incorporated conversation analysis with discourse analy-sis to produce an 'ethnomethodologically inclined discourse analysis' (eda). Interviews with UK Black and Black-white 'mixed race' women were transcribed using a conversation analytic transcription to cap-ture the intensification of shame within talk surrounded by speech dis-turbances such as in-breaths, out-breaths, pauses and loudness, to show Black beauty shame's silence/silencing and speakers' agency in talk-in-interaction.