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What Color Should I Go as to the Shopping Mall that You Invited Me to?

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  • Marco César Ribeiro Nascimento
  • Josiane Silva de Oliveira
  • Juliana Cristina Teixeira
  • Alexandre de Pádua Carrieri

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This article analyzes how discourses on user profiles of shopping malls in the city of Belo Horizonte evidence two aspects of Brazilian socio-historical context: race relations and spatial segregation in organizational contexts. We discuss race relations in Brazil considering color as a discursive construction and shopping malls as organizations that can be configured as spaces of spatial segregation that constitute symbolically private spaces for certain social groups. We used French-style discourse analysis as a methodological strategy. The body of analysis was constituted by discourses present in the Facebook social network and refers to an image that was published by a news outlet about the city of Belo Horizonte that profiled the city's shopping mall clientele in a series of six photos. The research results evidence the discursive construction of color as a dimension of meaning of social practices and representations of individuals that symbolically demarcate who can circulate, and where, in determined organizational spaces, especially in shopping malls.

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  • Marco César Ribeiro Nascimento & Josiane Silva de Oliveira & Juliana Cristina Teixeira & Alexandre de Pádua Carrieri, 2015. "What Color Should I Go as to the Shopping Mall that You Invited Me to?," RAC - Revista de Administração Contemporânea (Journal of Contemporary Administration), ANPAD - Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração, vol. 19(spe3), pages 245-268.
  • Handle: RePEc:abg:anprac:v:19:y:2015:i:spe3:1150
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