[Linganth] the term "thug"
Kerim Friedman
oxusnet at gmail.com
Sun Sep 25 22:58:48 UTC 2016
This article skips over the interesting history of the use of the word in
India which actually has a lot more in common with the current situation in
the US than the article would lead one to believe:
http://savageminds.org/2007/12/22/thuggee/
Kerim
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 5:28 AM, Roth Gordon, Jennifer F - (jenrothg) <
jenrothg at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Linganth [linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org] on behalf of
> Krystal Smalls [krystalasmalls at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 1:51 PM
> To: linganth at listserv.linguistlist.org
> Subject: Re: [Linganth] Linganth Digest, Vol 24, Issue 17
>
> 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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> 1. Re: Linguistic Anthropology Lessons on Black Lives Matter and
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 13:07:22 -0400
> From: "s.t. bischoff" <bischoff.st at gmail.com<mailto:bischoff.st at gmail.com
> >>
> To: Bonnie McElhinny <bonnie.mcelhinny at utoronto.ca<mailto:
> bonnie.mcelhinny at utoronto.ca>>
> Cc: Michele Koven <koven.michele at gmail.com<mailto:koven.michele at gmail.com
> >>,
> "LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<mailto:LINGAN
> TH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>"
> <LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org<mailto:LINGAN
> TH at listserv.linguistlist.org>>, Jacqueline Messing
> <jacquelinemessing at gmail.com<mailto:jacquelinemessing at gmail.com>>
> Subject: Re: [Linganth] Linguistic Anthropology Lessons on Black Lives
> Matter and Police Violence
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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
> > 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
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > *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:LINGAN
> TH 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
> >>>
> >>> ------------------------------
> >>> *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:LINGAN
> TH 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-
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> >>>>
> >>>> 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/
> >>>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-
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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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> >>>> >
> >>>> <dickh at arcadia.edu<mailto:dickh at arcadia.edu> <
> http://UrlBlockedError.aspx>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> 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
> >>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-
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