THE LINGUISTICS OF RACISM || Examining Our Language & Its Power

Language is society and language is incredibly powerful. Today we’ll look at 5 sociolinguistic concepts that dive deep into how racism is embedded in our language and how we can work on improving that. I’m constantly learning so if I can be more educated about something in this video please let me know!
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I’m not sure how people can read these without institution access so I’m sorry about that but if someone knows please let us know in the comments!
Jeanine M. Staples: “Encouraging Agitation: Teaching Teacher Candidates to Confront Words that Wound
www.jstor.org/stable/23479298
Julie Minikel-Lacocque: “Racism, College, and the Power of Words: Racial Microaggressions Reconsidered.”
www.jstor.org/stable/23526109
Gabrielle Bates Stahlman: “The Art of the Contemporary Anti-Racist American Poem: ‘In-Between Spaces,’ Exploding Conventions, and Listening as Form”
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★ Black English Vernacular
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Oakland Ebonics Court Case: www.linguistlist.org/topics/e...
Ann Arbor Ebonics Court Case:
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www.jstor.org/stable/40009298...
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[@muktam.6604]

Educational and helpful! Have personally never thought about or been educated around the linguistics of racism, and considering how prevalent a role language plays in society, this needs to be widely circulated. Keep up the unique and passion filled videos!

[@KritikaSpreadLove]

Thanks Mukta that means a lot

[@MG-gq2rs]

This was beautifully expressed and perfectly encapsulates what linguistics truly is! Well done!

[@jyadw]

What an excellent topic and so well thought through and presented! I can learn so much from your well curated material. I hope more audience come to your channel. You have a good soul and heart... 💜

[@KritikaSpreadLove]

Thank you so much

[@MrHarryc727]

Great job 🎉🎉🎉

[@sumeetank]

I just have one thing to say!
You amaze me!
An excellent and fresh take on the entire dialogue and you have managed to explain this complex topic in extremely simple manner (using some really fancy words "Linguistic Prescriptivism & Linguistic Violence").
Keep going Kritika! Enlighten!

[@KritikaSpreadLove]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it

[@KathakaFilms]

Thank you for making this. I'm going to find it really useful to point to when I talk to people.

[@KritikaSpreadLove]

Thank you glad it was helpful!

[@michaelamaning1544]

Just thank you for this, hugely important and informative

[@r2chelle]

Thanks! I have to do a video for school about this topic. Great video!

[@CeleteLoretoCuevas]

Amazing Video. You just helped me better understand my final exam prompt. THANK YOU!

[@KritikaSpreadLove]

I'm so glad thank you!

[@RiazLaghari]

very useful.Thnx for sharing.

[@sebastianmolano]

Thank you. This is great. I am going to use your video to talk about language and decoloniality. Thanks!

[@KritikaSpreadLove]

So glad you found it helpful thank you!

[@halabackatchya]

Sharing with my peers in my Teaching English to Students of Other Languages MA

[@amal7926]

I love this video!! This is awesome.

[@KritikaSpreadLove]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it

[@amal7926]

@@KritikaSpreadLove You're welcome. :)

[@anthrolinguistica]

Nice

[@helinmusheer3388]

What’s linguistics discrimination

[@Twhistle]

As a man of color, 💯

[@elietrinidad6633]

In Spanish its doesn't care if you are blavk or white your will depend of your country not like us who are black Speaks with different accent and venacular

[@sumguyasmr]

fancy words are racist. got it.

[@armaansharma3771]

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[@KritikaSpreadLove]

hello!!!

[@mmctest]

This is suggesting that we further disadvantage the poorer communities already subject to broken families, drugs, violance and sub par education because of government and community leaders who subjugate and exploit, by teaching them not to speak properly so they can be readily understood by others a necessity for employment. The only people this is good for is those making money talking about it in clear English. My opinion

[@1bluehammock]

Hmm. So what does this video say about yourself?

[@mollkatless]

I do not intend to come across as negative, you seem to be a positive and thoughtful young woman.
But, you might expand the variety of references you use for this type of discussion. I reference Thomas Sowell, he has covered this subject extensively. For example, Ebonics is used by a small number of African Americans, almost exclusively poor and poorly educated, not many African American Doctors, Lawyers, or Engineers communicate using ebonics on the job, or in their personal lives. Ebonics, is a form of language that did not, repeat did not, originate anywhere on the African continent.
It is way of speaking that was brought to North America from Britain in the 17th century, it is the language of poor whites first in Britain by the poor and uneducated, then in the antebellum south, that enslaved African Americans picked up, most have opted to speak using better English, few have decided not to. I could go on, but I do not match Thomas Sowell for clarity, or brilliance.
The question is, do you seek truth, or affirmation in a certain echo chamber?