[Linganth] any ling anth work on McCarthyism out there

[William L. Leap]

Take any chapter from David K. Johnson’s The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and lesbians in the Federal Government. (U Chicago 2004.)  This gets you the rhetoric of persecution and talk-back, and brings the  search for “subversives” into focus alongside  inflections of race, class, gender, sexuality and political difference . AND the material is  language-centered and also quite readable.


Wlm L Leap, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, American University, Washington DC
Affiliate Professor, Center for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL
Senior Founding Editor, Journal of Language & Sexuality




From: Linganth [mailto:linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org] On Behalf Of Galey Modan
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Subject: [Linganth] any ling anth work on McCarthyism out there

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know of any ling anth/ sociolinguistics research on discourse of the McCarthy era that would be approachable for undergrads with no background in linguistics or anthropology? Trying to find relevant stuff to teach in the current historical moment...

thanks for any suggestions --

Galey Modan
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