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

Fri Sep 23 19:59:41 UTC 2016

Dear All,

Adding to the great list of recommendations, I suggest two chapters in Alim
& Smitherman's "Articulate While Black," offering a way to think about and
discuss the larger social context of language and race in the U.S.  Here's
the ref:

Alim, H. Samy and Geneva Smitherman (2012).  "A.W.B. (Articulate While
Black): Language and and Racial Politics in the United States," Pp. 31-63
(Chapt. 2), and, "Change the Game: Language, Education, and the Cruel
Fallout of Racism" Pp. 167-197 (Chapt. 6) IN Articulate While Black: Barack
Obama, Language, and Race in The U.S.  Oxford University Press.

Best,

-- 
Jacqueline Messing, Ph.D.
Instructor, Department of Anthropology
University of Maryland-College Park
jmessing at umd.edu

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Bonnie McElhinny <
bonnie.mcelhinny at utoronto.ca> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I just wanted to share these publications  that I've done on related
> issues.  Though they were based on research conducted at a different moment
> (1990s), there are some perduring issues......
>
> Bonnie McElhinny
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> 2003a. “Fearful, Forceful Agents of the Law:  Ideologies about Language
> and Gender in Police Officers’ Narratives about the Use of Physical Force”
> *Pragmatics*  13(2):253-284.
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> 2001  "See No Evil, Speak No Evil:  White Police Officers' Arguments
> Around Race and Affirmative Action."  *Journal of Linguistic Anthropology*
> .  11(1):65-78.
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> 1998b  "'I Don't Smile Much Anymore':  Affect, Gender and the Discourse
> of Pittsburgh Police Officers."  *Language and Gender:  A Reader*, ed.
> Jennifer Coates.  Malden, MA:  Blackwell.    Pp.  309-327.
>
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> 1995“Challenging Hegemonic Masculinities:  Female and Male Police
> Officers Handling Domestic Violence.”  *Gender Articulated*, eds. Kira
> Hall and Mary Bucholtz.  NY:  Routledge, pp. 217-          243.
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> 1995    Cunningham, Clark and Bonnie McElhinny.  "Taking it to the
> Streets:  Putting Discourse Analysis to the Service of a Public
> Defender's Office" * Clinical Law Review*  2(1):285-314.
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> 1994    “An Economy of Affect:  Objectivity, Masculinity and the
> Gendering of Police Work.”       In *Dislocating Masculinity:
> Comparative Ethnographies*, eds. Andrea Cornwall and Nancy
> Lindisfarne.  NY:  Routledge.  159-171.
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> **************
> Bonnie McElhinny
> Associate Professor, Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies Institute
> University of Toronto
>
> Associate Editor, Journal of Sociolinguistics
>
> Anthropology:  Room 364, Anthropology Building, 19 Russell St., Univ. of
> Toronto
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> *From:* Linganth [linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org] on behalf
> of Dick, Hilary [dickh at arcadia.edu]
> *Sent:* September-23-16 1:16 PM
> *To:* Berman, Elise
> *Cc:* LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> *Subject:* Re: [Linganth] Linguistic Anthropology Lessons on Black Lives
> Matter and Police Violence
>
> 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>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> 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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