[Linganth] Language & Culture Course

Wed Jun 17 01:54:49 UTC 2020

The edited volumes Raciolinguistics
<https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190625696.001.0001/acprof-9780190625696>
and
Beyond Yellow English
<https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195327359.001.0001/acprof-9780195327359>
are
both excellent resources for decentering whiteness and standard language
assumptions in ling anth pedagogy! Racioling in particular brings together
so many powerful critical voices. Rosina Lippi-Green's "English with an
Accent" is evergreen, too. A non-exhaustive list of other texts I've loved
teaching with in recent years, in no particular order:

Bonilla, Y., & Rosa, J. (2015). #Ferguson: digital protest, hashtag
ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United
States. *American
Ethnologist.*, *42*(1), 4–17. <<basically, anything either of them write

Mason Carris, L. (2011). La voz gringa: Latino stylization of linguistic
(in)authenticity as social critique. *Discourse & Society*, *22*(4),
474–490.

Florini, S. (2014). Tweets, Tweeps, and Signifyin’. *Television & New Media*,
*15*(3), 223–237.

Young, V. A. (2010). Should writers use they own English? *Iowa Journal of
Cultural Studies*, *12*(April), 110–118.

Goodwin, C. (1994). Professional Vision. *American Anthropologist*, *96*(3),
606–633. <<Always useful when teaching in re: police brutality

Paris, D. (2010). “The Second Language of the United States”: Youth
Perspectives on Spanish in a Changing Multiethnic Community. *Journal of
Language, Identity & Education*, *9*(2), 139–155.

Slobe, T. (2018). Style, stance, and social meaning in mock white
girl. *Language
in Society* 47 (4), 541-567.

I would also make the case for including some of the great work speaking
back to the so-called Language Gap by many members of this list in your
intro syllabus. State politicization of literacy as an ostensible tool for
'escaping' poverty in lieu of truly engaging with structural poverty
traps/the criminalization of poverty, and the racialization of the
recipients of these interventions, is very worthy of attention at all
times, but especially in the context of calls to re-examine state hegemony
in the form of defunding police. (And because Joe Biden apparently thinks
the language gap is a thing. Sigh.)

Onward,

Rachel

--
Rachel Flamenbaum, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
California State University Sacramento
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 5:05 PM Liz Coville <ecoville at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shannon,
>
> Living Language by Laura Ahearn.
>
>
>
> https://books.google.com/books/about/Living_Language.html?id=L1s4DQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button
>
> Liz Coville
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 6:29 PM Harriet Ottenheimer <mahafan at ksu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Shannon,
>> My textbook and workbook/reader combo is now in its 4th edition (this one
>> woth Judith MS Pine as co-author). There are chapters focusing on
>> race/ethnicity and also gender issues but those concerns are integrated
>> througout the texts. Jane Hill's seminal article on language and white
>> racism is in the reader, too.
>> Harriet J Ottenheimer
>> Emerita Professor of Anthropology
>> Kansas State University
>>
>> Get BlueMail for Android <http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=15860>
>> On Jun 16, 2020, at 5:34 PM, "Campbell, Rebecca" <
>> rebecca.campbell at uconn.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Shannon,
>>> Perhaps you might be interested in my newest publication from my
>>> dissertation; it can be found here:
>>> https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831220924353
>>> <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.3102%2F0002831220924353&data=02%7C01%7Crebecca.campbell%40uconn.edu%7C5305fa40eca14df463c508d80fc4e00b%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637276685550473107&sdata=MXcgzSp4NCdKtme%2BEri3LeB5aSc5ZNLNHtIobU6F80g%3D&reserved=0> .
>>> The article is titled “Linguistic Re-Formation in Florida Heartland
>>> Schools: School Erasures of Indigenous Latino Languages” and it has just
>>> come out in the   *American Educational Research Journal*   (the
>>> flagship journal of the American Educational Research Association). I think
>>> the article provides a good example of work that is ground in and extends
>>> theory, offers clear explanations of method and data, and has an applied
>>> component.  If you or any folks want to assign it as part of your/their
>>> syllabus, I would be glad to skype in for a class meeting to talk about it.
>>> The only thing I ask is that PDFs not be posted on blackboard and instead
>>> links used so that the actual counts of readers is accurate—my uni paid for
>>> it to be open access so links should work just fine.
>>>
>> Take care,
>>>
>>> Rebecca A. Campbell-Montalvo, Ph.D.
>>> Postdoctoral Research Associate
>>> University of Connecticut
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf
>>> of s.t. bischoff <bischoff.st at gmail.com>
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 16, 2020 4:52:01 PM
>>> *To:* Anthropological Linguistics <anthling at indiana.edu>; Linguistic
>>> Anthropology Discussion Group (LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org) <
>>> LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org>
>>> *Subject:* [Linganth] Language & Culture Course
>>>
>>>
>>> *Message sent from a system outside of UConn.*
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I have been asked to teach an introductory Language and Culture course
>>> (which I have not done before). I wonder if anyone might have some
>>> suggestions for developing such a course especially in these times of
>>> COVID-19 and the race issues we are experiencing. This will be an online
>>> course, so I would welcome any advice/thoughts on how to exploit the class
>>> modality to explore language and culture as well.
>>>
>>> Thanks all!
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Shannon Bischoff
>>>
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