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Nice White Anglophones: Privilege, Power and Monolingualism is an innovative work exploring race, power and ideology via an extended fictional case study centring on a monolingual white American family—“The Smiths”. The reader is invited to follow this seemingly “normal” white English-speaking family through their everyday life and think critically about their linguistic and cultural reality, what they do and, especially, what they do not do. What role does monolingual whiteness play in socioeconomics and politics? How do participants in language and culture reinforce dynamics that afford privilege and power to some and exclude others? And how does white monolingualism contribute to the ensmalling our cultural horizons? These themes are introduced through stories and explored in-depth through critical discussion questions, providing comprehensive coverage of monolingualism, race and power in a new and engrossing way. This intersectional work—part textbook, part case study, part dialogue and critical inquiry, is a new and original way to engage students and scholars of language and culture, power and race, as well as anyone interested in monolinguality and languaculture.

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""This original book offers a critique of contemporary language education for reinforcing outdated monolingual ideologies. Drawing from queer theory, Russell describes the hopeful concept of languacultural freedom that refers to our capacity to engage in language and culture in ways that are liberating and inclusive, rather than restrictive and hegemonic."" Carl S. Blyth, University of Texas, USA ""Insightful, thought-provoking, and timely, Eric Louis Russell’s Nice White Anglophones offers a probing analysis of the cultural, racial, and class implications of language interactions in the United States and, more broadly, in the globalized world in which we all live."" Prof. Leonardo Buonomo, Università di Trieste, Italy ""I absolutely devoured this book. Russell writes as a teacher and a friend, meeting readers in a particularly vulnerable moment. Nice White Anglophones invites us to consider urgent, nuanced connections between critical scholarship on language and culture across disciplines and our own questions about the inequitable worlds we have inherited."" Adam Schwartz, Oregon State University, USA

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Eric Louis Russell is Professor of French and Italian at UC Davis, USA.

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