[Linganth] the term "thug"

Sun Sep 25 21:28:33 UTC 2016

Hi all,

Krystal's post made me think of the recent discussion around the term "thug" - which might give you a more concrete way to include language and model how to do linguistic analysis while allowing you to talk about how language conveys racial meaning and can contribute directly to justifications/situations of violence... Here is one quick link I found, but there is more out there.

http://www.npr.org/2015/04/30/403362626/the-racially-charged-meaning-behind-the-word-thug

jen

Jennifer Roth-Gordon
Associate Professor
School of Anthropology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0030

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Hi Elise,

I second all the readings suggested - especially the Rosa and Bonilla piece - which I've also taught it a couple of times. If you're looking for activities, I strongly suggest analyzing a stretch of discourse (or a widely circulating term) related to BLM and/or therecent murders - as a class - as a straightforward way to link the field to the crisis - and to actually apply ling anthro tools to better understand what's happening (i.e., how race, the movement, the police, anti-movement advocates, etc. are being discursively constructed - and how words directly connect to the ways police use force). Many court transcripts are available now or you could use media transcripts...

Best of luck,
Krystal

Krystal A. Smalls, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Department of Anthropology

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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<mailto: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<mailto: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
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> *From:* Linganth [linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org<mailto:linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org>] on behalf
> of Michele Koven [koven.michele at gmail.com<mailto:koven.michele at gmail.com>]
> *Sent:* September-24-16 11:52 AM
> *To:* Jacqueline Messing
>
> *Cc:* LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<mailto: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<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,
>>
>> --
>> Jacqueline Messing, Ph.D.
>> Instructor, Department of Anthropology
>> University of Maryland-College Park
>> jmessing at umd.edu<mailto:jmessing at umd.edu> <http://UrlBlockedError.aspx>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Bonnie McElhinny <
>> bonnie.mcelhinny at utoronto.ca<mailto: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
>>>
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>>> *From:* Linganth [linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org<mailto:linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org>
>>> <http://UrlBlockedError.aspx>] on behalf of Dick, Hilary [
>>> dickh at arcadia.edu<mailto:dickh at arcadia.edu> <http://UrlBlockedError.aspx>]
>>> *Sent:* September-23-16 1:16 PM
>>> *To:* Berman, Elise
>>> *Cc:* LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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/
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>>>> --
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>>>> Associate Professor of International Studies
>>>> Wenner-Gren Hunt Fellow (2016)
>>>> Department of Historical and Political Studies
>>>> *Arcadia University*
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>>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.arcadia.edu_profile_hilary-2Ddick&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=Q1dhjb0eHQx_ogf-7BtCisEAm10vvywIRE5FPHzsDjU&m=dpdkDg70R1b0YvdbwWyLziA2AipfGX4XJzbBa4YAfms&s=si7RfcnqOxf2pSD9W16SBpfgtXu_1hvsm0oeNGpeW48&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*
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