UCSB Symposium--"Rethinking the Black American Speaking Subject"

[Nathaniel Dumas]

Dear Colleagues,

I hope all is well. Please see the announcement below for the UCSB  
symposium, ?Rethinking the Black American Speaking Subject,? (June  
4th, 2012). If you have any further questions, feel free to email me  
at ndumas at linguistics.ucsb.edu. See also the flyer at the following  
link:

http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/rethinking-the-black-american-speaking-subject/

Finally, please forward to interested colleagues and students.

Best,
Nate Dumas
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Rethinking the Black American Speaking Subject
Monday, June 4 / 8:30 AM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

Invited Speakers:
John Baugh (University of Washington in St. Louis)
Renee Blake (New York University)
Tracey Weldon (University of South Carolina)

This interdisciplinary symposium brings together scholars in  
sociolinguistics and Black studies with the purpose of rethinking  
contemporary relationships between Black Americans and their  
communicative practices. Within sociolinguistics, the characterization  
of Black Americans? language variation has gone through considerable  
reformulation, particularly as gender and geographical contexts move  
scholars away from a monolithic idea of a single Black speaker.  
Meanwhile, through a multidisciplinary framework, scholars in Black  
studies have rethought Blackness as an object of study within and  
across the United States in contemporary power regimes of race and  
racism. However, these two fields rarely engage in intellectual  
exchange with each other. This symposium seeks to remedy this omission  
through invited presentations from leading sociolinguists and Black  
studies scholars to consider how a rethinking of language shapes  
theoretical understandings of Black Americans and how contemporary  
critical and conceptual understandings of Blackness promote new  
investigations of language and identity.

Sponsored by Center for California Languages and Cultures, the Dept.  
of Black Studies, the Dept. of Linguistics, and the IHC?s LISO RFG.




Nathaniel Dumas
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
http://ucsb.academia.edu/NathanielDumas