[Linganth] Linguistic Anthropology Lessons on Black Lives Matter and Police Violence

Sat Sep 24 15:52:25 UTC 2016

Dear all,

Very helpful suggestions. Could we have these posted to the SLA website or
some other prominent site, to make these suggestions more widely available
and searchable?

Best,

Michele

On Friday, September 23, 2016, Jacqueline Messing <
jacquelinemessing at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Adding to the great list of recommendations, I suggest two chapters in
> Alim & Smitherman's "Articulate While Black," offering a way to think about
> and discuss the larger social context of language and race in the U.S.
> Here's the ref:
>
> Alim, H. Samy and Geneva Smitherman (2012).  "A.W.B. (Articulate While
> Black): Language and and Racial Politics in the United States," Pp. 31-63
> (Chapt. 2), and, "Change the Game: Language, Education, and the Cruel
> Fallout of Racism" Pp. 167-197 (Chapt. 6) IN Articulate While Black: Barack
> Obama, Language, and Race in The U.S.  Oxford University Press.
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Jacqueline Messing, Ph.D.
> Instructor, Department of Anthropology
> University of Maryland-College Park
> jmessing at umd.edu <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jmessing at umd.edu');>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Bonnie McElhinny <
> bonnie.mcelhinny at utoronto.ca
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bonnie.mcelhinny at utoronto.ca');>> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I just wanted to share these publications  that I've done on related
>> issues.  Though they were based on research conducted at a different moment
>> (1990s), there are some perduring issues......
>>
>> Bonnie McElhinny
>>
>>
>> 2003a. “Fearful, Forceful Agents of the Law:  Ideologies about Language
>> and Gender in Police Officers’ Narratives about the Use of Physical Force”
>> *Pragmatics*  13(2):253-284.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2001  "See No Evil, Speak No Evil:  White Police Officers' Arguments
>> Around Race and Affirmative Action."  *Journal of Linguistic
>> Anthropology* .  11(1):65-78.
>>
>> 1998b  "'I Don't Smile Much Anymore':  Affect, Gender and the Discourse
>> of Pittsburgh Police Officers."  *Language and Gender:  A Reader*, ed.
>> Jennifer Coates.  Malden, MA:  Blackwell.    Pp.  309-327.
>>
>>
>> 1995“Challenging Hegemonic Masculinities:  Female and Male Police
>> Officers Handling Domestic Violence.”  *Gender Articulated*, eds. Kira
>> Hall and Mary Bucholtz.  NY:  Routledge, pp. 217-          243.
>>
>> 1995    Cunningham, Clark and Bonnie McElhinny.  "Taking it to the
>> Streets:  Putting Discourse Analysis to the Service of a Public
>> Defender's Office" * Clinical Law Review*  2(1):285-314.
>>
>>
>>
>> 1994    “An Economy of Affect:  Objectivity, Masculinity and the
>> Gendering of Police Work.”       In *Dislocating Masculinity:
>> Comparative Ethnographies*, eds. Andrea Cornwall and Nancy
>> Lindisfarne.  NY:  Routledge.  159-171.
>>
>>
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>>
>> **************
>> Bonnie McElhinny
>> Associate Professor, Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies Institute
>> University of Toronto
>>
>> Associate Editor, Journal of Sociolinguistics
>>
>> Anthropology:  Room 364, Anthropology Building, 19 Russell St., Univ. of
>> Toronto
>> Toronto, ON, CANADA M5S 2S2
>> Ph:  416-978-3297
>>
>> WGSI:  Room 2042, 40 Willcocks St., New College, Wilson Hall, Univ. of
>> Toronto
>> Toronto ON M5S 1C6
>>
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>> *From:* Linganth [linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org');>]
>> on behalf of Dick, Hilary [dickh at arcadia.edu
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dickh at arcadia.edu');>]
>> *Sent:* September-23-16 1:16 PM
>> *To:* Berman, Elise
>> *Cc:* LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG');>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Linganth] Linguistic Anthropology Lessons on Black Lives
>> Matter and Police Violence
>>
>> And apologies Jon*a*than for excluding the first "a" from your name!
>> Trying to do too many things at once...
>> Cheers,
>> Hilary
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Dick, Hilary <dickh at arcadia.edu
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dickh at arcadia.edu');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Elise (and everyone)--
>>>
>>> I haven't taught a ling anth unit on this topic, but one useful resource
>>> would certainly be Yarimar Bonilla & Jonthan Rosa's excellent 2015 AE
>>> article "#Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial
>>> politics of social media in the United States," along with the digital
>>> supplement that accompanies the article, available here--
>>> http://americanethnologist.org/2014/anthropology-ferguson-missouri/
>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__americanethnologist.org_2014_anthropology-2Dferguson-2Dmissouri_&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=Q1dhjb0eHQx_ogf-7BtCisEAm10vvywIRE5FPHzsDjU&m=dpdkDg70R1b0YvdbwWyLziA2AipfGX4XJzbBa4YAfms&s=AbFQl04ryjNnwWe3EYOCXow8ecNiKdwEqaABM_HVSkM&e=>
>>>
>>> I've used this material in other classes (that were not ling anth) and
>>> students enjoyed and appreciated it, and found it accessible to
>>> read/comprehend.
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Hilary
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Berman, Elise <eberman at uncc.edu
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','eberman at uncc.edu');>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I teach at UNC Charlotte, around a mile away from where the man was
>>>> killed on Tuesday. I am teaching introduction to linguistic
>>>> anthropology this semester, and I planned the whole syllabus around
>>>> getting students to apply linguistic anthropological ideas (language
>>>> diversity, language and identity, language and power, ideologies,
>>>> etc.) by analyzing the language gap hypothesis. So I had planned to
>>>> spend a lot of time talking about the relationship between language
>>>> and inequality, but had not intended to explicitly connect these
>>>> discussions to police violence.
>>>>
>>>> Now, however, I think I need to talk about police violence (and next
>>>> week, even though in the class we are still on language structure). I
>>>> was wondering if anyone had planned specific lessons on police
>>>> violence and black lives matter in linguistic anthropology classes and
>>>> would be willing to share what they did? There are obviously a lot of
>>>> different connections, but I am having some difficulty thinking about
>>>> how to incorporate them into the schedule/conceptual and skill
>>>> development activities that I had already planned.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Elise
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Elise Berman
>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>> Department of Anthropology
>>>> UNC Charlotte
>>>> https://clas-pages.uncc.edu/elise-berman/
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>>>
>>> --
>>> HILARY PARSONS DICK, PhD
>>> Associate Professor of International Studies
>>> Wenner-Gren Hunt Fellow (2016)
>>> Department of Historical and Political Studies
>>> *Arcadia University*
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>> --
>> HILARY PARSONS DICK, PhD
>> Associate Professor of International Studies
>> Wenner-Gren Hunt Fellow (2016)
>> Department of Historical and Political Studies
>> *Arcadia University*
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