
Linguistics in Pursuit of Justice
Colorblind Ambition
John Baugh(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 25. January 2018
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-1-107-15345-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'... this book provides a detailed survey of how linguistic science can be used to promote justice. It is a must-read for anyone, not only in the field of linguistics, but also in other disciplines, who want to promote justice and equality in the world.' Xuekun Liu, Language in SocietyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
12 Tables, black and white; 11 Halftones, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
498 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-15345-5 (9781107153455)
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Person
John Baugh is the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University, St Louis. He is best known for advancing studies of linguistic profiling and various forms of linguistic discrimination that were supported variously by the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the United States Department of State.
Content
1. Introduction; 2. Linguistics, life, and death; 3. Linguistics, injustice, and inequality; 4. Some linguistic and legal consequences of slavery in the United States; 5. Linguistic profiling; 6. Earwitness testimony and unbiased formulation of auditory line-ups; 7. Dialect identification and discrimination in the United States; 8. Formulating discrimination: dimensions of a historical hardship index; 9. Linguistic harassment; 10. Linguistic contributions to the advancement of justice; 11. Shall we overcome?