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

[Berman, Elise]

Dear all,

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions, they are very helpful.

Sincerely,
Elise
--
Elise Berman
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
UNC Charlotte
https://clas-pages.uncc.edu/elise-berman/


On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 9:51 PM,  <nilep at ilas.nagoya-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> I've listed the recommendations here:
> http://teach.linguisticanthropology.org/2016/09/25/black-lives-matter-and-police-violence/
> -Chad
>
> 2016-09-25 00:52 に Michele Koven が書きました:
>>
>> 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
>>
> [snip]
>
>>>>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Berman, Elise
>>>>> <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
>
>
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