Overview

From bilingual education and racial epithets to gendered pronouns and immigration discourses, language is a central concern in contemporary conversations and controversies surrounding social inequality. Developed as a collaborative effort by members of the American Anthropological Association’s Language and Social Justice Task Force, this innovative volume synthesizes scholarly insights on the relationship between patterns of communication and the creation of more just societies. Using case studies by leading and emergent scholars and practitioners written especially for undergraduate audiences, the book is ideal for introductory courses on social justice in linguistics and anthropology.

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Author:   Netta Avineri ,  Laura R. Graham ,  Eric J. Johnson ,  Robin Conley Riner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9781138069459

ISBN 10:   1138069450
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   14 December 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Reimagining Language and Social Justice Netta Avineri, Laura R. Graham, Eric J. Johnson, Robin Conley Riner, and Jonathan Rosa Part I: Language and Race Introduction and Critical Questions 1: “Never Tell Me How to Say It”: Race, Language Ideologies, and Harm Reduction in Secondary English Classrooms Julia R. Daniels 2: Identifying “Racists” While Ignoring Racism: The Case of the Alleged Slur on George Zimmerman’s 911 Tape Adam Hodges 3: Contesting Representations of Migrant “Illegality” through the Drop the I-Word Campaign: Rethinking Language Change and Social Change Jonathan Rosa Chapter 4: Communicating and Contesting Islamophobia Mariam Durrani Chapter 5: Languages of Liberation: Digital Discourses of Emphatic Blackness Krystal A. Smalls Part II: Language and Education Introduction and Critical Questions 6: Issues of Equity in Dual Language Bilingual Education Kathryn I. Henderson, Lina Martín-Corredor, and Genevieve Caffrey 7: Colorado’s READ Act: A Case Study in Policy Advocacy against Monolingual Normativity Kara Mitchell Viesca and Luis E. Poza 8: Dual Language Education as a State Equity Strategy Kathryn Lindholm-Leary, Martha I. Martinez, and Rosa G. Molina 9: Ubuntu Translanguaging and Social Justice: Negotiating Power and Identity through Multilingual Education in Tanzania Monica Shank Lauwo 10: A Critical Interrogation of the “Language Gap” Eric J. Johnson Part III: Language and Health Introduction and Critical Questions 11: Language, Justice, and Rabies: Notes from a Fatal Crossroads Charles L. Briggs 12: Ethics, Expertise, and Inequities in Global Health Discourses: The Case of Non-Profit HIV/AIDS Research in South Africa Steven P. Black 13: Interpreting Deaf HIV/AIDS: A Dialogue Mark Byrd and Leila Monaghan 14: Language as Health: Healing in Indigenous Communities in Guatemala through the Revitalization of Mayan Languages David Flood, Anita Chary, Peter Rohloff, and Brent Henderson Part IV: Language and Social Activism Introduction and Critical Questions 15: Mascots, Name Calling, and Racial Slurs: Seeking Social Justice through Audience Coalescence Netta Avineri and Bernard C. Perley 16: The Language of Activism: Representations of Social Justice in a University Space in Argentina Suriati Abas and James S. Damico 17: California Latinx Youth as Agents of Sociolinguistic Justice Mary Bucholtz, Dolores Inés Casillas, and Jin Sook Lee 18: Pronouns and Possibilities: Transgender Language Activism and Reform Lal Zimman 19: (De)Occupying Language H. Samy Alim Part V: Language, Law, and Policy Introduction and Critical Questions 20: A’uwẽ-Xavante Represent: Rights and Resistance in Native Language Signage on Brazil’s Federal Highways Laura R. Graham 21: The Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights Joyce Milambiling 22: “Linguistically Isolated”: Challenging the U.S. Census Bureau’s Harmful Classification Ana Celia Zentella 23: Immigrants Facing Linguistic Barriers in the U.S. Justice System: Case Studies from North Carolina Dominika Baran and Quinn Holmquist 24: Communicating Humanity: How Defense Attorneys Use Mitigation Narratives to Advocate for Clients Robin Conley Riner and Elizabeth S. Vartkessian Index

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Finally a book that squarely calls language for what it is--a crucial form of social action. Revolutionary in its approach to language, as well as the ways in which scholarship is developed collaboratively, this book forges new paths for language studies. In providing us with a lens that links language to race discourse, education, health, social activism, and law, the book shows how language operates to limit equitable participation and how it can be used to radically reimagine a world with social justice. Ofelia Garcia, The City University of New York, USA Language and Social Justice in Practice is an inspired collective rebuttal to those-academics and other citizens alike-who would erase or minimize the crucial role of language and communicative practices-in reproducing structural violence and promoting social injustice. In twenty-four hard-hitting chapters, these authors challenge hegemonic concepts and practices like the language gap, illegal migrants, linguistically isolated families, linguistic colonization, and racial slurs repackaged as Native American mascots. These engaged and activist scholars brightly illuminate a path for transforming academic knowledge about language into political action and social justice. Paul V. Kroskrity, University of California, USA.

Author Information

Netta Avineri is Associate Professor of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages/Teaching Foreign Language (TESOL/TFL) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Laura R. Graham is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. She served as Chair of the American Anthropological Association’s Committee on Human Rights and is founding Chair of the Association’s Committee on Language and Social Justice. Eric J. Johnson is Associate Professor of Bilingual/ESL Education at Washington State University Tri-Cities. Robin Conley Riner is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Marshall University. Jonathan Rosa is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and, by courtesy, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics, at Stanford University.

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