Language in Society· 2017Q1
Unsettling race and language: Toward a raciolinguistic perspective
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This article introduces a 'raciolinguistic perspective' that theorizes how race and language have become historically and contemporarily intertwined, arguing for their denaturalization to challenge white supremacy.
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- Introduces a 'raciolinguistic perspective' to analyze the co-naturalization of race and language.
- Examines historical and contemporary colonial links between race and language.
- Focuses on perceptions, categorization, intersections, and power dynamics of racial and linguistic inequality.
- Aims to denaturalize race and language categories as part of contesting white supremacy.
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Abstract
Abstract This article presents what we term a raciolinguistic perspective , which theorizes the historical and contemporary co-naturalization of language and race. Rather than taking for granted existing categories for parsing and classifying race and language, we seek to understand how and why these categories have been co-naturalized, and to imagine their denaturalization as part of a broader structural project of contesting white supremacy. We explore five key components of a raciolinguistic perspective: (i) historical and contemporary colonial co-naturalizations of race and language; (ii) perceptions of racial and linguistic difference; (iii) regimentations of racial and linguistic categories; (iv) racial and linguistic intersections and assemblages; and (v) contestations of racial and linguistic power formations. These foci reflect our investment in developing a careful theorization of various forms of racial and linguistic inequality on the one hand, and our commitment to the imagination and creation of more just societies on the other. (Race, language ideologies, colonialism, governmentality, enregisterment, structural inequality)*
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Field: Linguistics and Language
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