Description
Over the past two decades, the fields of linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics have complicated traditional understandings of the relationship between language and identity. But while research traditions that explore the linguistic complexities of gender and sexuality have long been established, the study of race as a linguistic issue has only emerged recently. The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race positions issues of race as central to language-based scholarship.In twenty-one chapters divided into four sections-Foundations and Formations; Coloniality and Migration; Embodiment and Intersectionality; and Racism and Representations-authors at the forefront of this rapidly expanding field present state-of-the-art research and establish future directions of research. Covering a range of sites from around the world, the handbook offers theoretical, reflexive takes on language and race, the larger histories and systems that influence these concepts, the bodies that enact and experience them, and the expressions and outcomes that emerge as a result.As the study of language and race continues to take on a growing importance across anthropology, communication studies, cultural studies, education, linguistics, literature, psychology, ethnic studies, sociology, and the academy as a whole, this volume represents a timely, much-needed effort to focus these fields on both the central role that language plays in racialization and on the enduring relevance of race and racism.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Field of Language and Race: A Linguistic Anthropological Approach to Race, Racism, and Racialization H. Samy Alim, Angela Reyes, and Paul V. KroskrityPart One: Foundations and Formations2. Language, Race, and Reflexivity: A View from Linguistic Anthropology Adrienne Lo and Elaine Chun3. Racism, Colorism, and Language within Their Macro ContextsArthur K. Spears4. Theorizing Linguistic Racisms from a Language Ideological Perspective Paul V. Kroskrity5. Reimagining Race and Language: From Raciolinguistic Ideologies to a Raciolinguistic Perspective Jonathan Rosa and Nelson Flores6. Racializing, Ethnicizing, and Diversity Discourses: The Forms May Change But the Pragmatics Stay Remarkably the Same Bonnie UrciuoliPart Two: Coloniality and Migration7. The Linguistic Intimacy of Five Continents: Racializing Language in Empire Bonnie McElhinny and Monica Heller8. African-Languages, Race, and Colonialism: The Case of Brazil and AngolaCristine Gorski Severo and Sinfree B. Makoni9. Immigration, Language, and Racial BecomingAwad Ibrahim10. Coloniality of Mixed Race and Mixed Language Angela Reyes11. Racializing Performances in Colonial Time-Spaces Kristina WirtzPart Three: Embodiment and Intersectionality12. Race, Language, and the Body: Towards a Theory of Racial Semiotics Krystal Smalls13. "We Don't Play": Black Women's Linguistic Agency Across Race, Class, and GenderMarcyliena Morgan14. Language, Race, and the (Trans)Formation of CisheteropatriarchyH. Samy Alim, Jooyoung Lee, Lauren Mason Carris, and Quentin E. Williams15. "You Met My Ambassador": Language and Self-monitoring at the Intersection of Race and SexualityBrianna Cornelius and Rusty Barrett16. The Gendered Muslim Subject: At the Intersection of Race, Religion, and GenderMariam DurraniPart Four: Racisms and Representations17. Racing Indian Language, Languaging an Indian Race: Linguistic Racisms and Representations of IndigeneityBarbra A. Meek18. Raciolinguistic Exceptionalism: How Racialized "Compliments" Reproduce White SupremacyH. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman19. Race, Humor, and Politics: Racialized Joke-Telling and Anti-Immigrant Politics in Northern ItalySabina Perrino20. What Does a Terrorist Sound Like?: Language and Racialised Representations of MuslimsKamran Khan21. Racializing Discourses of Illegality: Mexican and Central American Migration in the Time of TrumpHilary Parsons Dick
