[Ethnocomm] New Book Announcement

[Natasha Shrikant]

Hello!

I am not sure who moderates this listserv, but I found online that this is where I email if I would like to post to it. I have a new co-authored book out that may be of interest to ethnographers of communication. Would appreciate the share.

Thank you,

Natasha
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Hi all,

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We are excited to announce that our co-authored book is published and ready to read (with a discount code - see below)! The book is entitled Race Talk in Institutional Settings: A Language and Social Interaction Perspective. It’s a useful book if you…

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are interested in race and would like to expand your analytic approach, particularly looking at the role of everyday conversations constituting race, racialization, or racism in various institutional settings
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are a Language and Social Interaction (LSI) scholar who is interested in using LSI to study race talk.

The book is an accessible read and would be a great addition to a graduate seminar or to an upper level undergraduate course.

We are available for talks (online or in person!). Please consider purchasing or asking your library to adopt! Link to book: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1311883. You can also use the discount code RT30 for 30% off - expires Sept 30.

See summary below!

Natasha and Francesca
natasha.shrikant at colorado.edu<mailto:natasha.shrikant at colorado.edu>
frwillam at med.umich.edu<mailto:frwillam at med.umich.edu>



Summary
Language and social interaction scholars have increasingly explored the consequentiality of language use for the production and reproduction of race, racialization, and racism. This timely book proposes a race talk framework that enables researchers to explore how people treat race as an ongoing issue through language use in institutional settings. The chapters introduce key concepts, debates, and illustrative race talk studies using Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, Membership Categorization Analysis, Discursive Psychology, Identity-Implicative Discourse Analysis, and Critical Discourse Approaches. They highlight the benefits, challenges, and epistemic politics involved in race talk research. By synthesizing disconnected literature, this book charts an emerging subfield of LSI race talk research, methodological tensions, and proposes future directions for race talk research and inclusive community building.

“Shrikant and Williamson offer six compelling methods to examine how race (and racism) is not merely embedded in institutions, but is woven into the very fabric of everyday organizational discourse. Essential reading for researchers seeking robust qualitative tools to study the constitution of race in daily life.” — Trudy Milburn, Southern Connecticut State University

“Drawing on rich empirical materials, this accessible book demonstrates the distinctive affordances of a range of analytic approaches that focus on the details of naturally occurring language use in social interaction.” — Kevin A. Whitehead, University of California, Santa Barbara



Natasha Shrikant, PhD (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Communication
College of Communication, Media, Design, and Information
University of Colorado, Boulder


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