[lg policy] call: Rethinking the Black American Speaking Subject

[Harold Schiffman]

Rethinking the Black American Speaking Subject
Short Title: RBASS


Date: 04-Jun-2012 - 04-Jun-2012
Location: Santa Barbara, USA
Contact: Nathaniel Dumas
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/rethinking-the-black-american-speaking-subject/

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Meeting Description:

This interdisciplinary symposium brings together scholars in
sociolinguistics and Black studies with the purpose of rethinking
contemporary relationships between Black Americans and their
communicative practices. Within sociolinguistics, the characterization
of Black Americans’ language variation has gone through considerable
reformulation, particularly as gender and geographical contexts move
scholars away from a monolithic idea of a single Black speaker.
Meanwhile, through a multidisciplinary framework, scholars in Black
studies have rethought Blackness as an object of study within and
across the United States in contemporary power regimes of race and
racism. However, these two fields rarely engage in intellectual
exchange with each other. This symposium seeks to remedy this omission
through invited presentations from leading sociolinguists and Black
studies scholars to consider how a rethinking of language shapes
theoretical understandings of Black Americans and how contemporary
critical and conceptual understandings of Blackness promote new
investigations of language and identity.

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