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Language and Social Justice in Practice Netta Avineri

Language and Social Justice in Practice By Netta Avineri

Language and Social Justice in Practice by Netta Avineri

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This book uses case studies by leading and emergent scholars and practitioners written especially for undergraduate audiences, and is ideal for introductory courses on social justice in linguistics and anthropology.

Language and Social Justice in Practice Summary

Language and Social Justice in Practice by Netta Avineri

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.

Language and Social Justice in Practice Reviews

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.

About Netta Avineri

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.

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 Martin-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 Ines 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'uwe-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

Additional information

NLS9781138069459
9781138069459
1138069450
Language and Social Justice in Practice by Netta Avineri
Netta Avineri
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2018-12-14
248
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