♥ Indicates a resource that has been used to stimulate discussions during a meeting of the LLED Antiracist Caucus.
Accessible Resources
Linguicism in the news. By Steven Talmy.
In this section of Dr. Steven Talmy’s (LLED, UBC) blog, he critically discusses news events in which people are discriminated against on the basis of their language use, a form of oppression known as linguicism. As Dr. Talmy uncovers, linguicism is often aided and abetted by racism.
Language is part of the machinery of oppression – just look at how black deaths are described. By Patricia Williams (2020, June 10).
In this short Guardian opinion piece, Williams, professor of law at Columbia University, discusses the ways in which people use language to divert our attention from racism.
Short videos on accents and housing discrimination and linguistic profiling.
The significance of linguistic profiling (TEDxEmory). By John Baugh (2019).
Okim Kang explaining reverse linguistic stereotyping on “Talk American”, an episode of NPR’s Code Switch podcast (starting at 19:45).
Vocal Fries podcast. A podcast about linguistic discrimination, including several episodes related to Canada.
Other Resources
♥ Reverse linguistic stereotyping: Measuring the effect of listener expectations on speech evaluation. By Okim Kang & Donald L. Rubin (2009). [UBC link]
“Kang and Rubin discuss reverse linguistic stereotyping (RLS), which describes our tendency to evaluate an individual speaker’s language proficiency based on stereotypes associated with the speaker’s social identities. The findings make us aware of bias or potential discrimination that language evaluators (e.g., test raters or interviewers) can have. You can find the slides we used to facilitate our discussion here.” Kyuyun Lim
Undoing appropriateness: Raciolinguistic ideologies and language diversity in education. By Nelson Flores & Jonathan Rosa (2015). [UBC link]
Language and ethnicity. By Carmen Fought (2006). [UBC link]
The everyday language of white racism. By Jane H. Hill (2008). [UBC link]
Race and language learning in multicultural Canada: Toward critical antiracism. By Ryuko Kubota (2015). [UBC link]
English with an Accent: Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States. By Rosina Lippi-Green (2012). [UBC link]
Exposing prejudice: Puerto Rican experiences of language, race, and class. By Bonnie Urciuoli (2013).
The public life of white affects. By Mary Bucholtz (2019). [UBC link]
The ‘chiquitafication’ of U.S. Latinos and their languages, or: Why we need an anthropolitical linguistics. By Ana Celia Zentella (1996).