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

[Meghanne Barker]

Here's a forum for sharing pedagogical resources and ideas to approach BLM
from an anthropological perspective:

https://anthropoliteia.net/tag/blacklivesmattersyllabus/

I'm sure that they'd be happy if you shared any specifically ling anth
materials or approaches you develop, as well!

Best,

Meghanne

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 6:19 PM, INMACULADA M. GARCIA-SANCHEZ <
igarcias at temple.edu> wrote:

> 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/
> *Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods: The Politics of Belonging*
> <http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470673338.html>
>
> 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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-- 
Meghanne Barker
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Michigan
mmbarker at umich.edu
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