Language ideologies & politics of the N-word

[Adam Hodges]

For those interested in the public discourse surrounding the N-word (e.g.
the NAACP recently held a mock funeral for the word, and earlier this year
the NY city council voted to ban it), Michael Eric Dyson provides a nice
discussion of the issue in an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now
yesterday:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/18/1458248

The first five minutes of the interview could be used to spawn classroom
discussion on the issue as part of broader lessons on language ideologies,
taboo language, the politics of censorship, etc.

Adam


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Adam Hodges
Department of Linguistics
University of Colorado
 
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