Angela Reyes – New York Academy of Sciences

Things don’t mean what they used to: Crisis on the terrain of language

September 19, 6:30-8:00 Eastern – via Zoom A discussion between Damien Sojoyner and Orisanmi Burton that focuses on understanding the nuances and strategies of resistance against the carceral state in the United States that have been utilized over the past 50 years. Register to attend via Zoom here.

Getting Talked into (and out of) Whiteness

Dec 11, 2020a.sergeevaAngela Reyes, Mary Bucholtz

Mary Bucholtz, Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara It has long been recognized by social scientists that race is a socially, culturally, and politically constructed system for producing and reproducing inequality (Goodman, Moses, & Jones 2012; Harrison 1995; Omi & Winant 1994). Crucially, the racial system is sustained in large part through language…