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

[INMACULADA M. GARCIA-SANCHEZ]

Dear Elise,

The "Black Lives Matter Fall 2016" syllabus is not geared specifically for
linguistic anthropology, but it is a great resource for the kind of topics
you plan to cover in your class.  There are many articles and videos there
that would definitely be very amenable to a linguistic anthropology class.

This is the link to the syllabus:

http://www.blacklivesmattersyllabus.com/fall2016/

Best regards,

Inma

Inmaculada García Sánchez, Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Anthropology
Temple University
igarcias at temple.edu
http://www.temple.edu/anthro/
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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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