Linguistics in pursuit of justice:

As a black child growing up in inner-city neighborhoods in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, John Baugh witnessed racial discrimination at a young age and began to notice correlations between language and race. While attending college he worked at a Laundromat serving African Americans who were often su...

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Main Author: Baugh, John 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316597750
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316597750
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316597750
Summary:As a black child growing up in inner-city neighborhoods in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, John Baugh witnessed racial discrimination at a young age and began to notice correlations between language and race. While attending college he worked at a Laundromat serving African Americans who were often subjected to mistreatment by the police. His observations piqued his curiosity about the ways that linguistic diversity might be related to the burgeoning Civil Rights movement for racial equality in America. Baugh pursued these ideas whilst traveling internationally only to discover alternative forms of linguistic discrimination in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean and South America. He coined the phrase 'linguistic profiling' based on experimental studies of housing discrimination, and expanded upon those findings to promote equity in education, employment, medicine and the law. This book is the product of the culmination of these studies, devoted to the advancement of equality and justice globally
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2018)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 215 pages)
DOI:10.1017/9781316597750

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