Conceptualizations of competence that permeate applied linguistics systematically fail to
account for the role of racialization in language learning and assessments thereof. To …

This review presents a historical and contemporary view of white supremacy as an
entrenched global system based on presumed biological and cultural difference, related …

As complex institutions extend into and govern greater spheres of social life, ethnographers
contend with policy in an ever-widening range of fieldsites. This review examines …

The multi-species turn is generating significant new opportunities for rethinking theories of
justice. However, these efforts to think beyond anthropocentric approaches to justice often sit …

This article explores the potent role of covert linguistic racisms as practices critical for
maintenance and transmission of white supremacy (Spears 1999, 2020). Though most …

In this chapter, I examine the ways race, signs, and the body co-construct one another in an
effort to demonstrate the utility of a racial semiotics, or raciosemiotics, to better understand …

For years, newspaper headlines, partisan speeches, academic research, and even comedy
routines have communicated that the United States is undergoing a profound demographic …

Racism is an insidious problem with far-reaching effects on the lives of Black, Indigenous,
and People of Color (BIPOC). The pervasive negative impact of racism on mental health is …

This article reviews anthropological paradigms that link language and race with a focus on
the United States and other settler colonial nations that continue to use language as a tool of …

This article provides an overview of recent scholarship on postcolonial semiotics: processes
through which linguistic and other signs are linked to the colonial and its ongoing relevance …