As you’re listening to an episode of Language∙n∙Justice, you might ask yourself where you can learn more about something I mentioned, or maybe you just want a recap of a linguistic concept. Here, you can find all of the works I reference in the show, organized by episode. Questions about the material behind the show? Get in touch!
Episode 01: Communication Breakdown
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Baugh, J. (2003). Linguistic profiling. In S. Makoni, G. SMitherman, A.F. Ball, & A. K. Spears (Eds.), Black linguistics: Language, society, and politics in Africa and the Americas (pp. 155–163). Routledge.
Foley, W. (1997). Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell.
Gumperz, J. & Cook-Gumperz, J. (2012). Interactional Sociolinguistics: Perspectives on Intercultural Communication. In C. B. Paulston, S. F. Kiesling, & E. S. Rangel (Eds.), The handbook of intercultural discourse and communication (pp. 63–76). Wiley-Blackwell. doi.org/10.1002/9781118247273.ch4
Ramjattan, V. A. (2019). Racist nativist microaggressions and the professional resistance of racialized English language teachers in Toronto. Race Ethnicity and Education 22(3), 374–390. doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2017.1377171
Santos, F. & Hauser, C. (2015, September 3). Arizona news anchor is drawn into debate on her accent and the use of Spanish. New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/us/latina-arizona-news-anchor-vanessa-ruiz-spanish-pronunciation.html
Scollon, R., Scollon, S. W., & Jones, R. (2012). Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach (3rd ed.). Wiley-Blackwell.
Piller, I. (2017). Intercultural Communication: A Critical Approach (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press.
Episode 02: Injustice in Justice
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CBS News. (2013, July 30). Protesters across U.S. turn out in support of Trayvon Martin [Video]. Youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7D6HuQIIkM
Davies, D. (2017, August 22). FBI profiler says linguistic work was pivotal in capture of Unabomber. NPR. www.npr.org/2017/08/22/545122205/fbi-profiler-says-linguistic-work-was-pivotal-in-capture-of-unabomber
Eades, D. (2005). Beyond Difference and Domination? Intercultural Communication in Legal Contexts. Intercultural discourse and communication. The essential readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 304-316.
Eades, D. & Pavlenko, A. (2015). Guidelines for communicating rights to non-native speakers of English in Australia, England and Wales, and the USA. www.une.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/114873/Communication-of-rights.pdf
Pew Research Center: Journalism & Media Staff. (2012, March 30). How blogs, Twitter and mainstream media have handled the Trayvon Martin case. Pew Research Center: Journalism & Media. www.journalism.org/2012/03/30/special-report-how-blogs-twitter-and-mainstream-media-have-handled-trayvon-m/
Piller, I. (2017). Intercultural Communication: A Critical Approach (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press.
Rickford, J. R., & King, S. (2016). Language and linguistics on trial: Hearing Rachel Jeantel (and other vernacular speakers) in the courtroom and beyond. Language 92(4), 948-988.
Scollon, R., Scollon, S. W., & Jones, R. (2012). Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach (3rd ed.). Wiley-Blackwell.
Episode 03: Hippocratic Hypocrisy
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Boochani, B. (2016, December 29). Faysal Ishak Ahmed’s life was full of pain. Australia had a duty to protect him. The Guardian.www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/30/faysal-ishak-ahmeds-life-was-full-of-pain-australia-had-a-duty-to-protect-him
Cecco, L. (2020, September 30). Canada: Outcry after video shows hospital staff taunting dying Indigenous woman. The Guardian.www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/30/joyce-echaquan-canada-indigenous-woman-hospital
Davy, C., Harfield, S., McArthur, A., Munn, Z., & Brown, A. (2016). Access to primary health care services for Indigenous peoples: A framework analysis. International Journal for Equity in Health 15, 163.
Godin, M. (2020, October 9). She was racially abused by hospital staff as she lay dying. Now a Canadian Indigenous woman’s death is forcing a reckoning on racism. Time. time.com/5898422/joyce-echaquan-indigenous-protests-canada/
Indian Health Service. (2019, October). Disparities. Indian Health Service: The federal health program for American Indians and Alaska Natives. www.ihs.gov/newsroom/factsheets/disparities/
Kenison, T. C., Madu, A., Krupat, E., Ticona, L., Vargas, I. M. & Green, A. R. (2016). Through the Veil of Language: Exploring the Hidden Curriculum for the Care of Patients with Limited English Proficiency. Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 92(1), 92–100. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001211.
Montreal Gazette. (2020, October 3). Justice for Joyce Echaquan demonstration in Montreal [Video]. Youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMFoiQaiFss
Piller, I. (2017). Intercultural Communication: A Critical Approach (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press.
Puxley, C. (2013, August 29). Brian Sinclair: Man who died after 34-hour Winnipeg hospital wait was assumed to be ‘sleeping it off’ after vomiting. The Star.www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/08/29/brian_sinclair_man_who_died_after_34hour_winnipeg_hospital_wait_was_assumed_to_be_sleeping_it_off_after_vomiting.html
Rees, M. (2020, September 16). Racism in healthcare: What you need to know. Medical News Today. www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/racism-in-healthcare
Scollon, R., Scollon, S. W., & Jones, R. (2012). Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach (3rd ed.). Wiley-Blackwell.
Episode 04: The Great Equalizer — Not So Equal, Not So Great
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AP Archive. (2015, July 21). USA: Washington: Senate debate over Black American dialect Ebonics [Video]. YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUT5E6JXwyc&t=41s
Bon, S. C. (2020, January 14). Lau v. Nichols. In Encyclopaedia Britannica. www.britannica.com/topic/Lau-v-Nichols
Bonilla-Silva, E. (2018). Racism without racists: Color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America (5th ed.). Rowman & Littlefield.
Freeman, E. B. (1982). The Ann Arbor decision: The importance of teachers’ attitudes toward language. The Elementary School Journal 83(1), 41–47.
Piller, I. (2017). Intercultural Communication: A Critical Approach (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press.
Rickford, J. R. (2002). The Ebonics controversy in my backyard: A sociolinguist’s experiences and reflections. Journal of Sociolinguistics 3(2), 267–275.
Rosenthal, R. & Jacobson, L. (1968). Pygmalion in the classroom: Teacher expectation and pupil’s intellectual development. Crown House.
Scollon, R., Scollon, S. W., & Jones, R. (2012). Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach (3rd ed.). Wiley-Blackwell.
Yellin, D. (1980). The Black English controversy: Implications from the Ann Arbor case. Journal of Reading 24(2), 150–154.
Episode 05: Endangered, But Not Extinct
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Archambault, J. (2021, Jan. 24). How Covid-19 threatens native languages. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/opinion/covid-lakota-language.html
Arrazola, J., et al. (2020). COVID-19 mortality among American Indian and Alaska Native persons—14 states, January—June 2020. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Center for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 69(49), 1853–1856. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6949a3-H.pdf
Bear, C. (2008, May 12). American Indian boarding schools haunt many. NPR. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16516865
Betancourt, J. R. (2020, October 22). Communities of color devastated by COVID-19: Shifting the narrative. Harvard Health Publishing. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/communities-of-color-devastated-by-covid-19-shifting-the-narrative-2020102221201
Census shows native languages count. Language Magazine. https://www.languagemagazine.com/census-shows-native-languages-count/
Dunbar-Ortiz, R. (2014). An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Beacon Press.
Eberhard, D. M., Simons, G. F., & Fennig, C. D. (eds.). (2021). Ethnologue: Languages of the world. Twenty-fourth edition. http://www.ethnologue.com
Hallen, C. L. (1999). The history of the Latin language. Brigham Young University Department of Linguistics. https://linguistics.byu.edu/classes/Ling450ch/reports/latin.html
Healy, J. (2021, Jan. 12). Tribal elders are dying from the pandemic, causing a cultural crisis for American Indians. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/us/tribal-elders-native-americans-coronavirus.html
Indian country demographics. (2020, June 1). National Congress of American Indians. https://www.ncai.org/about-tribes/demographics
Little, B. (2018, Nov. 1). How boarding schools tried to ‘Kill the Indian’ through assimilation. History. https://www.history.com/news/how-boarding-schools-tried-to-kill-the-indian-through-assimilation
Moseley, C. (ed.). (2010). Atlas of the world’s languages in danger, 3rd edition. UNESCO Publishing. http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/en/statistics.html
Pember, M. A. (2019, March 8). Death by civilization. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/traumatic-legacy-indian-boarding-schools/584293/
The 6 coolest dead languages. (2018, July 15). Bilingua. https://bilingua.io/the-6-coolest-dead-languages
Episode 06: Weed and Words — A Language•n•Justice Conversation with Symone Varnado
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Frontline. (1998). Busted — America’s war on marijuana. PBS. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dope/etc/cron.html
Human Rights Watch. (2000). Punishment and prejudice: Racial disparities in the War on Drugs. Human Rights Watch 12(2). https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/2000/usa/index.htm#TopOfPage
Lopez, G. (2016, March 23). Nixon official: Real reason for the drug war was to criminalize black people and hippies. Vox. https://www.vox.com/2016/3/22/11278760/war-on-drugs-racism-nixon
Olimat, S. N. (2020). Powerful weapons: Dysphemism in Trump’s Covid-19 speeches. The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies 26(3), p. 17–29.
Thompson, M. (2013, July 22). Code Switch: The mysterious history of ‘marijuana.’ NPR.https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/07/14/201981025/the-mysterious-history-of-marijuana
Vagins, D. J. & McCurdy, J. (2006). Cracks in the system: 20 years of the unjust federal crack cocaine law. American Civil Liberties Union.https://www.aclu.org/other/cracks-system-20-years-unjust-federal-crack-cocaine-law