Raciolinguistics

Abstract Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of leading scholars—working both within and beyond the United States—to share research that helps us understand the increasingly vexed relationships between race, ethnicity, and language. Combining the innovative, cutting-edge approaches of race and ethnic studies with fine-grained linguistic analyses, chapters cover a wide range of topics, including the language use of African American Jews and the struggle over the very term “African American,” racialized language education debates within “majority-minority” immigrant communities as well as indigenous…