-Danny Begg Tik Toks, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram reels are all examples of short-form video content that is ubiquitous across social media. The term “doomscrolling”… Read More »“Nobody wants Their Doomscroll to be Interrupted”: Struggling for Visibility against Algorithmic Suppression
The Language and Social Justice committee of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) condemns all violent attacks and discrimination against Asian Americans, Asians, and Pacific… Read More »LSJ Statement on Anti-Asian Discrimination
REVISED CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Linguistic Anthropology special issue on LANGUAGE AND WHITE SUPREMACY Guest Editors: Krystal Smalls, Arthur Spears, and Jonathan Rosa (*Revised call for papers… Read More »Call for Papers, JLA Special Issue on Language and White Supremacy
Anthropology News Column By Mariam Durrani, Netta Avineri, Kathleen C. Riley, Hilary Parsons Dick, and Susan D. Blum This post is a summary of the… Read More »AN News: Language and Social Justice Committee Storify (Language and Social Justice Committee)
Prepared by: Netta Avineri, Susan D Blum, Hilary Parsons Dick, and Robin Conley Riner About the Listserv The Language & Social Justice (LSJ) listserv is… Read More »Directions for Signing up for the LSJ Committee Listserv
Anthropology News Article By Miranda Cady Hallett (U of Dayton) and Lynnette Arnold (U Mass-Amherst) During the 20th century, military dictatorships in Latin America became… Read More »AN News: “Detention, Disappearance, and the Power of Language” by Miranda Cady Hallett and Lynnette Arnold
Please see below a list of events that the Language and Social Justice Task Force is sponsoring and/or participating in at this year’s AAAs in… Read More »Language and Social Justice Task Force events at #AAA2016
Readings and other resources for use in linguistic anthropology classes on topics of police violence, the Black Lives Matter movement, and structural racism
In recent years, AAA’s Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) has generously supported a range of efforts intended to create interdisciplinary dialogues. In 2014, this support… Read More »AN News: “Interdisciplinary Collaborations around Language and Social Justice” by Jonathan Rosa (Stanford University) and Netta Avineri (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey)
Core Committee Established The SLA Committee for Language and Social Justice has now established its core committee, and is proud to welcome the new core committee… Read More »Update on the SLA Committee for Language and Social Justice
[Edit 9 December 2015] The SLA Committee for Language and Social Justice has now established its core committee. Individuals who are interested in participating in… Read More »SLA Committee on Language and Social Justice Call for Volunteers (open through November 25)
Anthropology News Article The month of September ushers in another season of professional football. Native Americans across the country will have to endure yet another… Read More »AN News: “Indian Mascots: Naturalized Racism and Anthropology” by Bernard C. Perley (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Anthropology News Article by Netta Avineri, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey; Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein, Independent Scholar; Robin Conley, Marshall University; Mariam Durrani, University of… Read More »AN News: “Silent Meditation: Speech, power, and social justice” by the Committee on Language & Social Justice
A report on Fox News intimates that a course using Jane Hill’s Everyday Language of White Racism is problematic. It is not clear from the… Read More »Everyday Language of White Racism in the news
The latest Anthropology News features an article from Bonnie Urciuoli entitled, “Language and Social Justice Committee Activities, 2013-14.” You can access the article on the… Read More »Anthropology News: “Language and Social Justice Committee Activities, 2013-14” (Bonnie Urciuoli)
Radio programs have recently celebrated a “new understanding” of the importance of preschool for success later in life. Related knowledge has been part of academic… Read More »Why preschool hasn’t saved the world
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE The Verbal Artistry of Julius Malema From the Anthro News Blog Language and Culture Column. Guest Columnist Steven P. Black Steven P.… Read More »The Verbal Artistry of Julius Malema
H. Samy Alim writing in the NY Times about “What if We Occupied Language?” When I flew out from the San Francisco airport last October,… Read More »Occupying Language
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology special issue, “Racializing Discourses,” now available online! Misty Jaffe and Paul Garrett are very pleased to announce the publication of the… Read More »JLA “Racializing Discourses”
Language and Culture (Anthro News Blog) I am delighted to announce the launch of the Language and Culture column on the Anthropology News blog. Jacqueline Messing,… Read More »For Ebonics, the New Milennium Is Pretty Much Like the Old One
January 5, 2011 David S. Johnson, Division Chief Housing and Household Economic Statistics U.S. Census Bureau 4600 Silver Hill Road Washington, DC 20233 Dear Mr.… Read More »Letter to the Census Bureau from the SLA Committee on Language and Social Justice
According to an article in the New York Times, American Sign Language is now the fourth most-studied language among US college and university students. While… Read More »Increasing number of US students study ASL
Steven Black, UCSD This morning (Sept. 20, 2010) while drinking my coffee I did a perfunctory survey of the news on Africa, only to be… Read More »The Naming of Africa
Reposted comment by Susan M. DiGiacomo John Tagliabue’s New York Times article on the new Catalan law mandating the dubbing and/or subtitling of 50% of… Read More »Susan DiGiacomo on Catalan
Comments by Michel DeGraff on responses to his petition on Haitian Kreyòl As it turns out, these responses echo age-old arguments about the (mis)use of… Read More »Michel DeGraff on Haitian Kreyòl
Repost of an article by H. Samy Alim and Imani Perry originally written for the The Grio blog: http://www.thegrio.com/opinion/why-the-deas-embrace-of-ebonics-is-lost-in-translation.php When the headlines appeared this week… Read More »DEA and Ebonics
Reposted from Celso Alvarez Cáccamo 2010/08/24 at 3:13 am Catalonia’s educational system is one of immersion in Catalan. Catalan- and Spanish-speaking children alike (as well… Read More »Haitian Kreyòl and Catalan
Some interesting comments on the education system in general in a New York Times Editorial on Haitian Education These comments were posted in response to… Read More »More on Haitian Kreyòl and the education system
Arizona on Our Minds Arizona lawmakers have been on our minds, recently. In Roundup #5, Leila talked about their ban on ethnic studies classes and… Read More »Linguistic Anthropology Roundup #7
On May 27, AAA President Virginia Dominguez sent a letter to the Census Bureau regarding its language questions and classifications, which you can find through… Read More »Letter to the Census Bureau