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

Sat Sep 24 17:07:22 UTC 2016

Hello all,

Another good source is "The Everyday Language of White Racism" by Jane Hill.

Regards,
Shannon

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Bonnie McElhinny <
bonnie.mcelhinny at utoronto.ca> wrote:

>
> Also:
>
> 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.
>
>
> **************
> 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
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Linganth [linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org] on behalf
> of Michele Koven [koven.michele at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* September-24-16 11:52 AM
> *To:* Jacqueline Messing
>
> *Cc:* LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> *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> 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,
>>
>> --
>> Jacqueline Messing, Ph.D.
>> Instructor, Department of Anthropology
>> University of Maryland-College Park
>> jmessing at umd.edu <http://UrlBlockedError.aspx>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Bonnie McElhinny <
>> bonnie.mcelhinny at utoronto.ca <http://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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> **************
>>> 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
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Linganth [linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org
>>> <http://UrlBlockedError.aspx>] on behalf of Dick, Hilary [
>>> dickh at arcadia.edu <http://UrlBlockedError.aspx>]
>>> *Sent:* September-23-16 1:16 PM
>>> *To:* Berman, Elise
>>> *Cc:* LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG <http://UrlBlockedError.aspx>
>>> *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
>>> <http://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
>>>> <http://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
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Elise Berman
>>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>>> Department of Anthropology
>>>>> UNC Charlotte
>>>>> https://clas-pages.uncc.edu/elise-berman/
>>>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__clas-2Dpages.uncc.edu_elise-2Dberman_&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=Q1dhjb0eHQx_ogf-7BtCisEAm10vvywIRE5FPHzsDjU&m=dpdkDg70R1b0YvdbwWyLziA2AipfGX4XJzbBa4YAfms&s=4QN7gsX_YF7Cp8LBhMjzq--b3XLsGWnZml2vJgMb9tc&e=>
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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
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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
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