<div dir="ltr">Good morning colleagues!<div><br></div><div>I hope all is well. I'm emailing to ask if anyone knows of any work that is specific to the tech industry on language ideologies and their intersections with race/ethnicity? I ask because I am about to start working with a non-profit aimed at increasing African American participation in tech, particularly to train critical user experience researchers. Yet much of the work that is out there on speech events like the 'user interview' and 'diary studies' do not take ethnicity and language ideologies into account. Moreover, a majority of the work excludes and omits much of the work done by critical native anthropologists who have raised critiques of traditional anthropological methods that the tech industry often uses in UX research without doing any critical appraises of it that really challenge status quo ideologies.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, most of the work, except in the context of international user experience research, assumes a cultural homogeneity within work in the US, and has consequences for how persons of color who come from different backgrounds may be evaluated as 'effective' and 'non-effective' interviewers as tech begins to push for more people of color to be a part of their teams without a critical understanding of all this entails. Of course, I could point my colleagues to Charles Briggs' work, but tech people, I've found, like to read things a bit more closely aligned to their industry and it's a long hard battle since user experience research has had a particular bent towards psychology/cognitive science.</div><div><br></div><div>That said, does anyone know of any linguistic anthropology work on this, or graduate students currently working on this? I'd also like to use these materials to start reshaping the diversity and inclusion training as well at levels higher up, so if anyone has any best practices for that, that too would be great.<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Nate</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Nathaniel Dumas<div>Research Associate, Department of Anthropology</div><div>University of Santa Cruz</div><div><a href="mailto:nadumas@ucsc.edu" target="_blank">nadumas@ucsc.edu</a></div></div></div>
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