3 links for Linguistic Discrimination and African American English
Today’s 3 links are for Linguistic Discrimination and African American English:
John Baugh - "Linguistic Profiling" (2003) - The Social Life of Language
YouTube video
This video introduces John Baugh’s work on linguistic profiling. Mike Mena summarises the concept of linguistic profiling, ‘white voice’ in American society, and accent discrimination. An edited video of Mike Mena speaking to camera with some video clips, and quoted text on screen. 10m48s. Auto-generated subtitles. See also The Significance of Linguistic Profiling, a 2019 TEDx talk from John Baugh referenced in this video.
Covert Segregation: Dialect Discrimination in the Housing Market
YouTube video
This is a short talk as part of the LSA’s 2018 “5 Minute Linguist” competition from Kelly E. Wright and Kevin B. McGowan. A single wide shot of the two speakers and the audience. This talk summarises research that replicates and extends John Baugh’s work, and shows that dialect discrimination is real, but covert. Relevant section 29m46s-35m51s, link above starts at the start of this talk. Whole video 1h13m57s duration. Auto-generated subtitles.
Linguistic Injustice: Vocal Fries interview with Sharese King
Podcast episode
An interview with Dr. Sharese King about Rachel Jeantel and her treatment by the justice system and the media during the George Zimmerman trial. 50m42s (interview starts at 8m20s). Transcript available.
A distraction:
Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s powerful spoken word poem “Like Totally Whatever”, performed at the 2015 National Poetry Slam. See the full video here.
We know the USA isn’t the only place where linguistic discrimination happens. We’ll be doing other curated 3 Links posts on this topic in the future (have some great resources to share from your part of the world? See below for how to share resources!)
See you next week for a 3 Links post about careers outside academia.
Lauren and Gretchen
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