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The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct. Human language both shapes, and is shaped by, our minds, societies, and cultural worlds. This state-of-the-field survey covers a wide range of topics, approaches and theories, such as the nature and function of language systems, the relationship between language and social interaction, and the place of language in the social life of communities. Promoting a broad vision of the subject, spanning a range of disciplines from linguistics to biology, from psychology to sociology and philosophy, this authoritative handbook is an essential reference guide for students and researchers working on language and culture across the social sciences.

Linguistics --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Anthropological linguistics. --- Ethnolinguistique --- Anthropological linguistics --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture

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What is ethnicity? Is there a 'white' way of speaking? Why do people sometimes borrow features of another ethnic group's language? Why do we sometimes hear an accent that isn't there? This lively overview, first published in 2006, reveals the fascinating relationship between language and ethnic identity, exploring the crucial role it plays in both revealing a speaker's ethnicity and helping to construct it. Drawing on research from a range of ethnic groups around the world, it shows how language contributes to the social and psychological processes involved in the formation of ethnic identity, exploring both the linguistic features of ethnic language varieties and also the ways in which language is used by different ethnic groups. Complete with discussion questions and a glossary, Language and Ethnicity will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, as well as anybody interested in ethnic issues, language and education, inter-ethnic communication, and the relationship between language and identity.

Antropologische linguïstiek --- Etniciteit --- Etnolinguïstiek --- Linguïstische antropologie --- Taal en culturele identiteit --- Antropologische linguïstiek. --- Etniciteit. --- Etnolinguïstiek. --- Linguïstische antropologie. --- Taal en culturele identiteit. --- Anthropological linguistics. --- Ethnicity. --- Sociolinguïstiek. --- Taal en cultuur. --- Anthropological linguistics --- Ethnicity --- #SBIB:309H518 --- #SBIB:316.8H16 --- #SBIB:39A6 --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Verbale communicatie: sociologie, antropologie, sociolinguistiek --- Welzijns- en sociale problemen: migranten, rassenrelaties --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Sociolinguistics --- Ethnische Identität. --- Ethnizität. --- Ethnolinguistik. --- Fremdsprachenlernen. --- Soziolinguistik. --- Sprache --- Sprache. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics

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"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not. In this book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people's lives and behavior and the nation's fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people--including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball's Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others--she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity." -- Provided by the publisher.

Social stratification --- minderheden --- sociale klassen --- sociale geschiedenis --- macht --- United States of America --- Caste --- Social classes --- Classism --- Ethnicity --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social Class --- Ethnic Groups --- Race Relations --- United States --- United States. --- Race relations. --- Ethnic relations.

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This book is concerned with racism and education in Britain. It aims to seek greater understanding of the nature and endurance of racism within education practice in the 21st century and to examine the relationship between racism and the educational experiences and outcomes of many Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) children and young people, with reference to school and university. Employing Critical Race Theory, Critical Whiteness Theory and Intersectionality, this structural analysis traces the historical and contemporary development of racism in education. White privilege and White supremacy, it is argued, are central to the perpetuation of racism and the failure to either understand or recognise the systemic nature of racial oppression. The book focuses on Britain, but the analysis locates racism as a global phenomenon. In spite of decades of policies on ‘race’ equality in Britain, BAME children and young people continue to be discriminated against and are failed by the education system. Applying a theoretical analysis of racism and White supremacy and privilege to an examination of government policies and research in schools and universities, the nature and extent of racism is revealed in the educational experiences of young people. Gill Crozier is Emerita Professor of the Sociology of Education at the University of Roehampton, UK. She was formerly Director of the Centre for Educational Research in Equalities, Policy and Pedagogy. She has researched and published on ‘race’ and racism, parents and schools, children’s school experiences, and students social and learning experiences in higher education.

Sociology of education --- Sociology --- Higher education --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- sociologie --- onderwijs --- onderwijssociologie --- Education, Higher. --- Race. --- Educational sociology. --- Social justice. --- Higher Education. --- Race and Ethnicity Studies. --- Sociology of Education. --- Social Justice. --- Educació superior --- Discriminació en l'educació --- Gran Bretanya

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This book examines the emergence of the black middle classes in urban Brazil, after 30 years of black mobilization and against the backdrop of deep economic, cultural, and political transformations taking place in recent decades within the country. One of the consequences of such transformations is said to be the restructuring of gender, race, and class relations. Utilizing qualitative research techniques such as ethnography, interviews, life histories, and focus groups among Afro-descendant families in the Northeast region of the country, the book explores contemporary race, class, and gender inequalities and their impact on daily lived experience. It reveals the dynamics underlying upward mobility, the diverse modes and experiences of social ascent into the middle classes, and the everyday negotiations involved in establishing one's status in the socio-racial hierarchy, which are not captured by other, more "macro" lenses. While some of these patterns are not peculiar to black people, this book argues that "race" shaped the contours and possibilities of social mobility in particular ways. This book is critical reading for specialists in the fields of inequality and race, class, and gender relations. Doreen Joy Gordon is a Lecturer in Anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Dr. Gordon's research interests focus on race and other social inequalities, postcolonialism, decolonization, family/kinship, religion and aesthetics, and social justice issues in Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of culture --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Biotechnology --- etnologie --- etnografie --- cultuur --- biotechnologie --- Latin America --- Ethnology. --- Biotechnology. --- Race. --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- Culture. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Ethnography. --- Race and Ethnicity Studies. --- Latin American Culture.