You people: Membership categorization and situated interactional othering in BigBank

Abstract This paper offers an ethnomethodological membership categorization analysis (MCA) of episode argumentative talk in a bank, between recent Indian migrant and her white British area manager. MCA examines how members use categorizations the course their everyday practical activities including workplace meetings. Our shows “interactional trouble” employee manager leads to racially Othering by invoking attributes resonant with what researchers call coloniality. Although theories racism microaggression focus on interactions, attention is not usually given moment‐by‐moment, turn‐by‐turn interactions racial categorizations. In contrast, our case study enables us explicate complexities racializing re‐colonizing work specific organizational encounters. Racist organizations are complex, contestable, draw various shared categories, resources, knowledges deployed achieve situated institutional aims. in‐depth, close relatively short interaction, we able reveal institutional, gendered, racial, colonial devices that were made relevant; enabling works every day. Studies racist stress there specificities categories mobilized settings for example, parents, neighbors, race, ethnicity therefore forms produced. article contributes studies showing devices―such as English, Indian, English Economy―mobilized which led minoritized member staff being interactionally Othered ways only does interpersonal harm but exclusion dehumanization. We show ethnomethodology very useful, somewhat neglected approaches, learning about racism, coloniality, gender mundane, interactions.