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date: 02 July 2022

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Ideas about language and race are both historically interconnected and contemporarily intertwined. Language is a fundamental characteristic on which race is determined and characterized. This chapter focuses on two crucial aspects of language and racialization: how the humanistic and scientific study of language has served to racialize individuals and groups of people, and how language and notions of language have contributed to academic and non-academic notions of race and culture. Racism based language is one of the last acceptable forms of racism. The chapter presents a perspective for the ways in which language and race have been co-constructed in both research and praxis, and contends that the contemporary definitions of race that do not include considerations of both race and language as fundamental to culture only serve to further subjugate and racialize groups.

Keywords: language, racialization, racism, culture, subjugation

Anne H. Charity Hudley

Anne H. Charity Hudley is Associate Professor of Education, English, Linguistics, and Africana Studies at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She is associate editor of Language and directs the William and Mary Scholars Program. With Christine Mallinson, she is author of Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools and We Do Language: English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom.

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