Racing Indian Language, Languaging an Indian Race

Meek, Barbra A.

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“…Beliso‐De Jesús and Pierre (2019) make a similar point about this kind of colonization of other concepts to taxonomize race, which has historically been oriented toward pseudo‐scientific phenotype and, implicationally, culture, in some now repudiated strands of “science” and in the popular mind. Rosa (2019) and Meek (2020) enter similar observations in calling attention to how language itself can be “racialized” and phenotype or “race” taken as a determinant or strong indicator of language(s) spoken. In sum, various ancillary concepts are “colonized” in racialization.…”

Section: Race Racialization and People Of Colormentioning

confidence: 92%

White Supremacy and Antiblackness: Theory and Lived Experience

Spears

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Our goal in understanding white supremacy should be theory building, viewed as instrumental in providing explanation and prediction as a foundation for activism. As humanists and social scientists, and more particularly as anthropologists and linguistic anthropologists, we should take to heart not only anthropology’s mandate to be holistic, comparative, and historical but also the tradition of anthropological theorizing. Lived experience is the substance of the, perhaps temporarily, ineffable structure of feeling, shaping, and structuring what we should desperately want theory to account for, including our pain, resentments, hatreds, longing, and joy—even the air we breathe and the rivers flowing among the United States, which are shaped by—fused with—white supremacy and antiblackness. White supremacy seeks to be totalitarian, even as it is contained by and/or co‐constructed by not only ancillary systems such as gender‐, class‐, and sexuality‐based ones but also larger systems such as capitalism, purposeful violence, and the state’s quest for hegemony. In this writing’s search for a deeper and broader comprehension of white supremacy, discussions are presented on underdiscussed themes in white supremacy, such as the “whitening” power of language, and additionally two key issues: (1) the change currently underway in the United States'white‐supremacist racial system from a race‐primary system toward a skin‐color primary system, accompanying a likely change in the basic principle for defining whiteness and (2) the necessity to understand that white supremacy is a key element in the degradation and exploitation of, not only labor of color but also white labor—to a lesser extent, and the looming possibility going forward of the United States’ decline domestically and internationally.

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Section: Race Racialization and People Of Colormentioning

confidence: 92%

White Supremacy and Antiblackness: Theory and Lived Experience

Spears

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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“…The ways in which Indigenous-authored dramas engage with questions around language use, authenticity, and relevant ideologies and racial logics (e.g. skin colour) around Indigenous identity is worth additional research (see Meek, 2020). Cleverman creator Ryan Griffen recounts his own experience and how it impelled him to create an Aboriginal superhero:My son’s mother and I are both light-skinned Aboriginal people who strongly embrace our Aboriginality.…”

Section: Functions Of Aae Lexismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…chief , tepee , squaw , how ). Furthermore, Meek (2020) shows that disfluency and linguistic incompetence were normalised as dimensions of Indianness in Westerns. According to Stamou (2014), most of these studies concern American and European film/television, and very few draw on concepts from stylistics.…”

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Functions of dialogue in (television) drama: A case study of Indigenous-authored television narratives

Bednarek

Syron

2022

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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While stylistics has successfully integrated the study of language use in film and television, relatively little research has tried to systematically classify the functions of television or film dialogue – i.e. to taxonomise its range of potential stylistic functions such as characterisation or the creation of consistency. Most stylistic research has also focussed on traditional US (Hollywood) or European narrative mass media, rather than culturally-diverse or Indigenous-authored film and television. This article aims to make a contribution to both of these under-examined fields by offering a case study of the stylistic functions of Australian Aboriginal English lexis in three successful Indigenous-authored television series. The three series ( Redfern Now, Cleverman and Mystery Road) are all important for the television canon and were broadcast in Australia as well as exported internationally. Using an existing corpus with dialogue from these series as repository, this article illustrates the different functions of Australian Aboriginal English lexis in its surrounding text by critically examining multiple dialogue extracts from the three narratives. Quotations from Indigenous screen creatives are interwoven with the analysis where relevant. We argue that such lexis fulfils many functions beyond characterisation and demonstrate the significance of communicating culture and identity in Indigenous-authored drama. The study has implications both for the stylistic analysis of the multiple functions of television/film dialogue and for the study of narratives that feature significant creative involvement by marginalised, subjugated, colonised, or otherwise historically excluded communities – including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait islander people(s) in Australia.

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“…The net effect of ideologies of personalism (Rosaldo 1982) on language is a belief that “holds that the most important part of linguistic meaning comes from the beliefs and intentions of the speaker” (Hill 2008, 38). These interacting components of the language ideological assemblage (Kroskrity 2018; Meek 2020) associated with white supremacy are multiply consequential for the evaluation of language use. By language ideological assemblage (Kroskrity 2021), I mean the sum total of beliefs and feelings about languages that interact and inform language use.…”

Section: The White Listening Subjectmentioning

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Covert Linguistic Racisms and the (Re‐)Production of White Supremacy

Kroskrity

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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This article explores the potent role of covert linguistic racisms as practices critical for maintenance and transmission of white supremacy (Spears 1999, 2020). Though most Whites benefit from the structural violence of white supremacy, many disclaim their belief in racial hierarchies or participation in racist projects. Though they reject overt racism, they are more open to the effects of covert racism in reproducing racialized categories and naturalizing the patterns of political‐economic stratification associated with white supremacy. Covert racism is a product of a language ideological assemblage (Kroskrity 2018) involving raciolinguistic ideologies (Alim 2016; Rosa and Flores 2017) of the “white listening subject” (Rosa and Flores 2020), his/her “folk theory of racism” (Hill 2008), and the deployment of such features as indexicality and anonymity. Two instances of covert racism directed at Native Americans‐‐the academic pejoration of traditional narratives of the Indigenous Mono and Yokuts language communities of Central Cailfornia (Kroskrity 2015) and anonymous internet‐circulating jokes about Indians (Meek 2013). The indexical consistency of these racializing practices over time and scales of circulation are linked to settler‐colonialism and settler‐capitalism (Speed 2018b) as part of the larger project of white supremacy.

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Racing Indian Language, Languaging an Indian Race

Cited by 29 publications

References 11 publications

White Supremacy and Antiblackness: Theory and Lived Experience

White Supremacy and Antiblackness: Theory and Lived Experience

Functions of dialogue in (television) drama: A case study of Indigenous-authored television narratives

Covert Linguistic Racisms and the (Re‐)Production of White Supremacy

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