Sunday, July 9 10:30am
Linguistics and Justice: What We Can Learn about the Teaching of Linguistics from Black Students’ Languages, Literacies, Identities, and Lived Experiences
Dr. April Baker-Bell
Michigan State University
In this talk, Dr. April Baker-Bell will discuss how anti-Black linguistic racism and white linguistic supremacy get normalized in teacher attitudes, curriculum and instruction, pedagogical approaches, disciplinary discourses, and research, and she will discuss the impact these decisions have on Black students’ language education and their linguistic, racial, and intellectual identities. Dr. Baker-Bell will introduce a new way forward through Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy, a pedagogical approach that intentionally and unapologetically places Black Language at the center to critically interrogate white linguistic hegemony and anti-Black linguistic racism.
Scholarly Teaching in Linguistics 