A groundbreaking critical discourse analysis of everyday language, reveals the underlying racist stereotypes circulating in American culture
In The Everyday Language of White Racism, prominent linguist Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of the relationship between language, race, and culture. First published in 2008, this classic textbook employs an innovative framework to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to persist in White American culture and sustain structures of White Supremacy. Detailed yet accessible chapters integrate a broad range of literature from across disciplines, including sociology, social psychology, critical legal studies, anthropology, and sociolinguistics. Throughout the book, students are encouraged to engage with the linguistic data available through observation of racialized communication in their everyday lives.
Edited by a team of leading scholars, the second edition of The Everyday Language of White Racism brings Hill's contributions to the study of racism into conversation with the most current literature on language and racism in the United States. Topics such as racial profiling, police violence, the Black Lives Matter movement, White nationalism, White fragility, and various forms of institutional racism are addressed within Hill's broader framework of White racial projects and the "White folk" theory of race and racism. New chapter-by-chapter annotations clarify and contextualize theoretical concepts, accompanied by new discussion questions that offer guidance for analytical conversations in classrooms.
- Provides resources for critical discussions on contemporary racial issues that continue to limit and endanger BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) individuals and communities
- Dispels the common assumption that White racism is fading in the US and the Western world
- Illustrates how racist effects can be produced in interaction without any single person intending discrimination
- Contains an overview of the theory of race and racism, with definitions of terms and concepts
- Includes recent statistical data on U.S. racial gaps across a variety of categories and access to a companion website with additional resources
The Everyday Language of White Racism, Second Edition remains an indispensable resource for undergraduate and graduate students in Critical Race Studies and Linguistic Anthropology courses across the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Brings Jane H. Hill's groundbreaking work into conversation with a broad and interdisciplinary range of contemporary literature on language and racism in the United States
When it was first published in 2008, Jane H. Hill's The Everyday Language of White Racism presented an unprecedented critical discourse analysis of the relationship between language, race, and culture. Investigating the linguistic landscape through the lenses of White racial projects and the White folk theory of race and racism, Hill revealed the underlying racist stereotypes that permeate White American culture to this day.
Now in its second edition, The Everyday Language of White Racism provides up-to-date resources for analytical conversations on the racial issues that continue to limit and endanger BIPOC individuals and communities. New academic essays by leading scholars address topics such as racial profiling, police violence, linguistic appropriation, White nationalism, White fragility, and various forms of systemic racism within Hill's broader theoretical framework.
Editors Christina Leza, Barbra A. Meek, and Jacqueline H. E. Messing provide new chapter-by-chapter annotations that clarify and contextualize theoretical concepts, new discussion questions focused on contemporary racial issues, and recent statistical data on U.S. racial gaps in a variety of categories.
Including access to a companion website with additional resources, The Everyday Language of White Racism, Second Edition remains an essential textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses on critical race studies and linguistic anthropology across the humanities and social sciences.
