[Linganth] Linguistic Anthropology Lessons on Black Lives Matter and Police Violence

[Dick, Hilary]

And apologies Jon*a*than for excluding the first "a" from your name!
Trying to do too many things at once...
Cheers,
Hilary

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Dick, Hilary <dickh at arcadia.edu> wrote:

> Hi, Elise (and everyone)--
>
> I haven't taught a ling anth unit on this topic, but one useful resource
> would certainly be Yarimar Bonilla & Jonthan Rosa's excellent 2015 AE
> article "#Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial
> politics of social media in the United States," along with the digital
> supplement that accompanies the article, available here--
> http://americanethnologist.org/2014/anthropology-ferguson-missouri/
>
> I've used this material in other classes (that were not ling anth) and
> students enjoyed and appreciated it, and found it accessible to
> read/comprehend.
>
> All the best,
> Hilary
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Berman, Elise <eberman at uncc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I teach at UNC Charlotte, around a mile away from where the man was
>> killed on Tuesday. I am teaching introduction to linguistic
>> anthropology this semester, and I planned the whole syllabus around
>> getting students to apply linguistic anthropological ideas (language
>> diversity, language and identity, language and power, ideologies,
>> etc.) by analyzing the language gap hypothesis. So I had planned to
>> spend a lot of time talking about the relationship between language
>> and inequality, but had not intended to explicitly connect these
>> discussions to police violence.
>>
>> Now, however, I think I need to talk about police violence (and next
>> week, even though in the class we are still on language structure). I
>> was wondering if anyone had planned specific lessons on police
>> violence and black lives matter in linguistic anthropology classes and
>> would be willing to share what they did? There are obviously a lot of
>> different connections, but I am having some difficulty thinking about
>> how to incorporate them into the schedule/conceptual and skill
>> development activities that I had already planned.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Elise
>>
>> --
>> Elise Berman
>> Assistant Professor
>> Department of Anthropology
>> UNC Charlotte
>> https://clas-pages.uncc.edu/elise-berman/
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>
>
>
> --
> HILARY PARSONS DICK, PhD
> Associate Professor of International Studies
> Wenner-Gren Hunt Fellow (2016)
> Department of Historical and Political Studies
> * Arcadia University*
> <https://www.arcadia.edu/profile/hilary-dick>
> <dickh at arcadia.edu>
>



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HILARY PARSONS DICK, PhD
Associate Professor of International Studies
Wenner-Gren Hunt Fellow (2016)
Department of Historical and Political Studies
* Arcadia University*
<https://www.arcadia.edu/profile/hilary-dick>
<dickh at arcadia.edu>
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