Jane H Hill

The Everyday Language of White Racism

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill explores the myth that White racism is fading in the western world. Instead she reveals it to be a pervasive and highly adaptive cultural system, one that has endured in various forms for hundreds of years. Hill's incisive analysis of everyday talk and text shows how language that purports to be anti-racist is framed almost entirely by a folk theory of racism, one that continues to contain overt and covert racist discourses, slurs, and epithets. This prominent linguist offers a penetrating summary of critical theories of racism and introduces the concept of "linguistic appropriation", as a new theoretical dimension to the study of language contact and linguistic borrowing. Hill draws on her internationally-acclaimed work on "Mock Spanish", and delves into two important new case studies of public debates around racist slurs, providing a fresh and incisive analysis of the relationship between language, race, and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781405184540
• ISBN-10: 140518454X
• Artikelnr.: 23809801

Autorenporträt

Jane H. Hill is Regents' Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served as President of the American Anthropological Association, and was awarded the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology in 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments vi

1 The Persistence of White Racism 1

2 Language in White Racism: An Overview 31

3 The Social Life of Slurs 49

4 Gaffes: Racist Talk without Racists 88

5 Covert Racist Discourse: Metaphors, Mocking, and theRacialization of Historically Spanish-Speaking Populations in theUnited States 119

6 Linguistic Appropriation: The History of White Racism isEmbedded in American English 158

7 Everyday Language, White Racist Culture, Respect, and Civility175

Notes 183

References 197

Index 217

Rezensionen

"Recommended [to] Most levels/libraries." (CHOICE, November2009)

"This book makes an important contribution to the body of criticalrace scholarship in deconstructing how language is used toperpetuate racism and in doing so validates the author'schallenge to the common assumption that 'white racism has goneunderground.'" (People with Voices, April 2009)"Resonating far beyond its focus on the US, this is a lucid,compelling, committed and highly original account of thefundamental aspects of routine language that help racism thriveamidst its everyday denial."
-Professor Ben Rampton, King's College London

"The Everyday Language of White Racism is an extremelyimportant book. Jane Hill raises readers' awareness for thepotential danger which confronts all of us; i.e. that 'race' andracially based practices which are frequently expressed in indirectand covert ways would become part of common sense and thusessentialized. This is also a very timely book because it points usto the many instances in everyday life where discrimination stilloccurs and proposes ways how to challenge social exclusion."
-Ruth Wodak, Distinguished Professor of DiscourseStudies, Lancaster University

"Hill's academic credentials give her the authority to writethis disquieting book. The care she uses to make her case willcompel even skeptics to reconsider the way they speak about otherpeople."
-Otto Santa Ana, University of California, LosAngeles

"For the many Americans who believe that racism is on thedecline in the contemporary United States, The Everyday Language ofWhite Racism will be both eye-opening and thought-provoking.Challenging the commonsense belief that racism is rooted inindividual, intentional feelings of hatred or prejudice, Jane Hillshows that racism is produced through language in which raciststereotypes circulate, whether deliberately, unwittingly, orsomewhere in between. Hill's magisterial command of a widerange of scholarship provides rich theoretical and politicalcontext for her acute analyses of racist language in the media,public discourse, and private talk. The result is an engaging andimportant discussion of the enduring yet often invisible presenceof racism in American daily life."
-Mary Bucholtz, Department of Linguistics, Universityof California, Santa Barbara