The Routledge Handbook of Language and Race.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Makoni, Sinfree.

Series:

Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (539 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Race provides an up-to-date overview of language and race from a modern global perspective.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Overview: The Complexity of Race and Its Relationship With Language

Race as a Complex Construct

Race and Language

Overview of Chapters in this Handbook

References

Part I Conceptual Issues and Their Political Predicates

1 Racism and Ideology in Linguistics

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Linguistics as a Source of Educational Capital

1.3 Linguistics as a Classroom Practice

1.4 Political Conformism and Reification

1.5 The Trap of Intellectualism

1.6 Conclusion

Notes

2 The Concept of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics Research Within Brazil

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Whiteness in Brazil

2.3 Finding and Analyzing Whiteness Literature in Applied Linguistics

2.4 Results and Discussion

2.4.1 Descriptive Account of the Corpus

2.4.2 How Whiteness Is Conceived in the Texts

2.5 Final Remarks

3 The Discourse of "Whiteness," Its Universalization, and the Epistemological Colonization of the European East

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The Significance of Epistemological Situatedness and Positionality

3.3 Some Methodological Considerations

3.4 The Problem of "Whiteness": Defining the "White"

3.5 Locating the European East in Global Histories of Racism and Racializing

3.6 An Alternative Perspective: the Romanian Omeniă Alongside Ubuntu and Other African Concepts

3.7 Conclusion

4 #GANDHIMUSTFALL,#AUGUSTUSMUSTFALL,TEMPORAL REALITY, ㌷ゝ㏏て MAAT 'MAAT' AND㋴㌗る㎗ㅱ㆓㏛㈇ ㇾ㏤㈖ㆎㅓ㏏㊖ SRWḎ T NKMT 'RESTORING THE LANDOF BLACK PEOPLE'2

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Decolonial/decoloniality/decolonization/decolonialism: the Case Against ㌙ㅓㅱ』 ㏥ mw "Eurasians" Terminology.

4.2.1 The Paradox of Language Or Inherent Contradiction?

4.2.2 Linear ㌙ㅓㅱ』 ㏥ mw "Eurasians" Conception of Time

4.2.3 Construction of Identity in the Context of Conceptual Lockdown

4.3 Understanding ㌷ゝ㏏て M t "Maat" and ㋴㌗る㎗ㅱ㆓㏛㈇ㇾ㏤㈖ㆎㅓ㏏㊖ Srwḏ T N Kmt "Restoring the Land of Black People"

4.3.1 ㌷ゝ㏏て M t "Maat": the Foundation of Cosmic, Socio-Political, and Personal Order

4.3.2 ㋴㌗る㎗ㅱ㆓㏛㈇ㇾ㏤㈖ㆎㅓ㏏㊖ Srwḏ T N Kmt "Restoring the Land of Black People"

4.3.3 Beyond Decolonization: Embracing ㌷ゝ㏏て M t "Maat" and ㋴㌗る㎗ㅱ㆓㏛㈇ㇾ㏤㈖ㆎㅓ㏏㊖ Srwḏ T N Kmt "Restoring the Land of Black People" as Conceptual Framework for Abibitumi "Black Power" and Abibifahodie "Total Black Liberation From White World Terror Domination"

4.4 Case Studies of Resistance: Parallels Between #gandhiMustFall and #augustusMustFall

4.4.1 Amnirense Qore Li Kdwe Li's Campaign Against Augustus: an Exemplification of Ancient Resistance

4.4.2 The Gandhi Statue at the University of Ghana: Challenging Soft Power of ㌙ㅓㅱ』 ㏥ mw "Eurasians" in Contemporary Times

4.4.3 Artistic Representation as Soft Power: Bridging Millennia of Resistance

4.4.4 The Imperative of Reclaiming Space and Memory

4.5 Recasting the Dimensions of Time and Space in Resistance

4.5.1 Beyond Linear Legacies: Embracing Cyclical Time

4.5.2 Space as Cyclical, Dynamic, and Sacred

4.5.3 Cyclical Resistance as a Path to Abibifahodie

4.6 Invoking Ancient Principles in Modern Movements: the Contemporary Relevance of Restoring ㌷ゝ㏏て M t "Maat"

4.7 Confronting Obstacles and Seizing Opportunities On the Road to Abibifahodie

4.7.1 Challenging the Status Quo With Ancient Insights

4.7.2 Reclaiming Identity Amidst Historical Amnesia

4.7.3 Crafting Futures From the Bedrock of ㌷ゝ㏏て M t "Maat"

4.8 Conclusion

References.

5 Against Methodological Monolingualism: "Language," "Race," and Western-Intellectual Cultures of Monoglot Standardization

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Methodological Monolingualism and the Western Raciolinguistic Imaginary

5.3 Enlightenment Anglo-Monolingualisms and Their Postcolonial (Trans)formations

5.4 Methodological Monolingualism's Others

5.5 Conclusion: Method Beyond Method

6 Rethinking Boundaries and the Trans-National Romani Experience

7 BLACKNESS Multiple and scalable?

Part II Encounters and Encountering

8 Un-/indisciplined Researching in the Margins: (Non-)naming Positionalities in Swedish Spaces

8.1 Upfronting a Disclaimer. Opening Thoughts and Aims

8.2 On Selecting Colors, Individual and Collective Positionalities

8.3 Notes On Un-/indisciplined Epistemological-Methodological Framings and Data

8.4 To Name Or Not to Name Is the Issue

8.4.1 A Mobile-Loitering Gaze Across Time and Vocabularies in Swedish Spaces

8.4.2 (Non-)naming-Practices Across Scales in Societal Arenas

8.4.3 Attending to Individual Exceptionalism By Normalizing Positionalities

8.5 Back to a Disclaimer. Some Grounded Speculations…

9 On Being Black: The Linguistic Conceptualization of Colorisms in English and German

9.1 Introduction and Background

9.2 Collective Identities, Colorism, and Language

9.3 Transmutation, Lexicalization, and Grammaticalization

9.4 Black - Schwarz

9.4.1 Schwarz: Associations and meanings in German

9.4.2 Black (Ness) in English Speaking Societies

9.5 Deracializing English and German

9.6 Discussion and Conclusions

10 From "Murzyn" and "Mulat" to "Czarny": Naming Black People in Poland

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Forming Polish National Identity Through Naming "THEM".

10.2.1 Language and Ideology of US Vs. THEM

10.2.2 Polish Language as Tool of Identity Construction

10.3 Semantics of "Murzyn" and "Mulat"

10.4 Pragmatics of "Murzyn" and "Mulat." The Study of Reception

10.4.1 #DontCallMeMurzyn Campaign - Pragmatic Effect of "Murzyn"

10.4.2 Between "Murzyn" and "Mulat"

10.5 Towards Linguistic Self-Reference of Black Poles

10.5.1 Between References to Skin Color and Collective Consciousness: "Czarnoskóry," "Ciemnoskóry," and "Czarny"

10.5.2 A Note On "Afropolak"

10.6 Conclusion

10.7 Related Topics

11 Race, Discourse, and Friendship

11.1 Introduction

11.2 A Framework for Analyzing Racialized Discourse in Casual Conversation

11.3 Data Collection and Analysis

11.3.1 Discursive Multiplicity in Race Talk

Extract 1: "Black Mom"

Extract 2: "Black Parents"

11.4 Ludic Deployment of Racial Categories

Extract 3: "It Tastes White"

Extract 4: "White Masters"

Extract 5

Extract 6

11.5 Conclusion

Appendix 1: Transcription Key

12 Racialized Relations: Constructing the "Other" Through the Discourse of Prejudice in China Town in Cape Town, South Africa

12.1 Introduction

12.2 The Chinese Diaspora in (South) Africa

12.3 Chinese Shops and China Towns

12.4 Race Relations in South Africa

12.4.1 Race Relations and New Racism

12.5 Representation and Stereotype: the Familiar Other

12.5.1 Deviance and Threat

12.5.2 Difference

12.6 Discussion and Conclusion

13 Kwesi Kwaa Prah and Conversations On Seven Decades of Peripatetic Activism

Part III Contestations Within and Beyond

14 Race(ing) Accents in Singapore

14.1 Language and Race

14.2 Race in Singapore

14.3 Linguistic Features of Racial Differences

14.4 The Study

14.5 Can Race Be Heard?

14.6 Race and Person.

14.6.1 Status Traits

14.6.2 Solidarity Traits

14.6.3 Attributes Associated With Race

14.7 Racial Profiling?

15 African Heritage in Brazil

15.1 Introduction

15.2 The Afro-Brazilian Colonial Context

15.3 The Popular, Oral, and Regional as Indexes of African Linguistic Heritage

15.4 Conclusion

16 Language, Race, and Nationalism: Views From East Asia

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Raciolinguistics

16.3 Language and Race Studies in East Asia

16.3.1 China

16.3.2 Taiwan

16.3.3 Korea

16.3.4 Language and Race Studies in Japan

16.3.4.1 Non-Native Japanese Speakers in Japan

16.3.4.2 Case Study: Yasashii Nihongo

16.4 Conclusion

17 Grappling With Placards: Transracial Politics and Un/doing Whiteness at Black Lives Matter Protests in Germany

17.1 Introduction

17.2 Germanies Without "Rasse"?

17.3 Racial Translation and Transracial Politics in a Relational Ontology

17.4 Racializing Placards

17.4.1 The Focus Group Interview and the Protest Space

17.4.2 To Hold Or Not to Hold a Placard (While White)

17.4.3 Festlegen Oneself On a Placard

17.5 Staying On the Slash

17.5.1 Un/doing Whiteness By Taking a Step Back With a Big Sign

17.5.2 Un/doing Whiteness By Carrying Black Words

17.6 Conclusion

18 Anal Temporalities: Racialization, Homosex, and the Legacy of Nation-Building in the Balkans

18.1 Introduction

18.1.1 Methodology

18.2 The Racial Logic of Exchange

18.2.1 Intertwined Legacies

18.2.2 Old Refugees, New Refugees

18.3 Anal Temporalities

18.3.1 Nostalgia and Temporality

18.4 Colonial Solidarity

18.5 Conclusion

19 Relics of Imperialism?: Racialization and Language Choice in Multiracial Kenya

19.1 Introduction

19.2 Race and Ethnicity

19.3 Language Policy.

19.4 Racialism and Radicalized Discourse.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-036740-2

1-003-24011-9

1-04-036746-1

9781003240112

OCLC:

1564372782