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

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Goodwin, Charles (1994). "Professional Vision." American Anthropologist 96(3): 606-633.

Professional Vision

Charles Goodwin

Applied Linguistics, UCLA

cgoodwin at humnet.ucla.edu

Using as data videotapes of archaeologists making maps, and lawyers animating events visible on the Rodney King videotape, this article investigates the discursive practices used by members of a profession to shape events in the phenomenal environment they focus their attention upon, the domain of their professional scrutiny, into the objects of knowledge that become the insignia of their profession: the theories, artifacts and bodies of expertise that are its special domain of competence and set it apart from other groups. Seeing is investigated as a socially situated, historically constituted body of practices through which the objects of knowledge which animate the discourse of a profession are constructed and shaped. Analysis focuses on three practices, coding schemes, highlighting, and the articulation of graphic representations, which are articulated in a work relevant way within sequences of human interaction. Through the structure of talk in interaction members of a profession hold accountable for, and contest, the proper constitution and perception of the objects that define their professional competence.

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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
Toronto, ON, CANADA M5S 2S2
Ph:  416-978-3297

WGSI:  Room 2042, 40 Willcocks St., New College, Wilson Hall, Univ. of Toronto
Toronto ON M5S 1C6

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

Dear all,

Very helpful suggestions. Could we have these posted to the SLA website or some other prominent site, to make these suggestions more widely available and searchable?

Best,

Michele

On Friday, September 23, 2016, Jacqueline Messing <jacquelinemessing at gmail.com<mailto:jacquelinemessing at gmail.com>> wrote:
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,

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Jacqueline Messing, Ph.D.
Instructor, Department of Anthropology
University of Maryland-College Park
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Bonnie McElhinny <bonnie.mcelhinny at utoronto.ca<UrlBlockedError.aspx>> 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

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.

2001  "See No Evil, Speak No Evil:  White Police Officers' Arguments Around Race and Affirmative Action."  Journal of Linguistic Anthropology .  11(1):65-78.

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.

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.

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.

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
Toronto, ON, CANADA M5S 2S2
Ph:  416-978-3297<tel:416-978-3297>

WGSI:  Room 2042, 40 Willcocks St., New College, Wilson Hall, Univ. of Toronto
Toronto ON M5S 1C6

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

And apologies Jonathan 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<UrlBlockedError.aspx>> 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/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__americanethnologist.org_2014_anthropology-2Dferguson-2Dmissouri_&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=Q1dhjb0eHQx_ogf-7BtCisEAm10vvywIRE5FPHzsDjU&m=dpdkDg70R1b0YvdbwWyLziA2AipfGX4XJzbBa4YAfms&s=AbFQl04ryjNnwWe3EYOCXow8ecNiKdwEqaABM_HVSkM&e=>

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<UrlBlockedError.aspx>> 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

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Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
UNC Charlotte
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