[Linganth] Reading recommendations 'we' among activists

[Cynthia Gordon]

Dear Duff,
The following papers might be useful. The first one (by one of my terrific
former students, Minh Nguyen) studies the discourse of an online AAPI
activist group and includes consideration of "we" (though that is not the
paper's main focus). The second one is a paper that I co-wrote with a
colleague in counselor education; it examines "we" specifically (in a
non-activist context, but still pertaining to creating shared alignments).

Nguyen, Naomee-Minh. 2021. "This is similar to Vincent Chin":
Intertextuality, referring expressions, and the discursive construction of
Asian American activist identities in an online messaging community. *Discourse
& Society* 31(1): 98-118.

Gordon, Cynthia and Melissa Luke. 2016.* We* and professional identity
socialization in email supervision of counselors-in-training. *Journal of
Language and Social Psychology* 35(1): 56-76.

Best,
Cynthia Gordon
Department of Linguistics
Georgetown University



On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 1:09 PM Jennifer Guzman <guzman at geneseo.edu> wrote:

> Dear Duff,
>
> Although it is not specific to your question about research on use of 'we'
> among activists, your student may find the following articles useful. In
> them, my colleague and I report on our own ethnographic research with some
> of the activists who were involved in the same NYS campaign for driver's
> license access.
>
> 2020 Medeiros MA and JR Guzmán. Im/migrant Farmworker Deportability Fears
> and Mental Health in the Trump Era: A Study of Polimigra and Contramigra in
> New York State. Culture, Agriculture, Food, and Environment 42(2):103-113.
> https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12254
>
> 2020 Guzmán, JR and MA Medeiros. Damned If You Drive, Damned If You Don’t:
> Meso-level Policy and Im/migrant Farmworker Tactics under a Regime of
> Immobility. Human Organization 79(2):130-139.
> https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525.79.2.130
>
> 2019 Guzmán, JR and MA Medeiros. An Unlikely Cause: The Struggle for
> Driver’s Licenses to Prevent Family Separation. Practicing Anthropology
> 41(1):3-6.
>
> Best regards,
> Jennifer Guzmán
> SUNY Geneseo
>
>
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>> Dear list readers,
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>>        Thank you for your collective wisdom! Tonight, I'm wondering if you
>> can suggest any sources about the use of person deixis (especially "we" in
>> English and similar forms in Spanish) among activists. This is for someone
>> who's writing about a coalition that (successfully!) organized to persuade
>> the New York state legislature to allow drivers licenses for undocumented
>> migrants. The coalition's members made effective use of "we" in
>> articulating the alliance that held them together, and it would be good to
>> read sources that consider this issue. Again, *thank you* for any
>> suggestions you can offer.
>>          good wishes,
>>                          -Duff
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