A groundbreaking critical discourse analysis of everyday language, reveals the underlying racist stereotypes circulating in American culture

In The Everyday Language of White Racism, prominent linguist Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of the relationship between language, race, and culture. First published in 2008, this classic textbook employs an innovative framework to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to persist in White American culture and sustain structures of White Supremacy. Detailed yet accessible chapters integrate a broad range of literature from across disciplines, including sociology, social psychology, critical legal studies, anthropology, and sociolinguistics. Throughout the book, students are encouraged to engage with the linguistic data available through observation of racialized communication in their everyday lives.

Edited by a team of leading scholars, the second edition of The Everyday Language of White Racism brings Hill's contributions to the study of racism into conversation with the most current literature on language and racism in the United States. Topics such as racial profiling, police violence, the Black Lives Matter movement, White nationalism, White fragility, and various forms of institutional racism are addressed within Hill's broader framework of White racial projects and the "White folk"theory of race and racism. New chapter-by-chapter annotations clarify and contextualize theoretical concepts, accompanied by new discussion questions that offer guidance for analytical conversations in classrooms.

• Provides resources for critical discussions on contemporary racial issues that continue to limit and endanger BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) individuals and communities
• Dispels the common assumption that White racism is fading in the US and the Western world
• Illustrates how racist effects can be produced in interaction without any single person intending discrimination
• Contains an overview of the theory of race and racism, with definitions of terms and concepts
• Includes recent statistical data on U.S. racial gaps across a variety of categories and access to a companion website with additional resources

The Everyday Language of White Racism, Second Edition remains an indispensable resource for undergraduate and graduate students in Critical Race Studies and Linguistic Anthropology courses across the Humanities and Social Sciences.

About the Author

Jane H. Hill was Regents' Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She served as President of the American Anthropological Association, and was awarded the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology in 2005.

Christina Leza is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colorado College. She is a linguistic anthropologist and Yoeme-Chicana activist scholar whose scholarship focuses on Indigenous rights and lifeways, social justice movements, racial discourse, and the U.S.-Mexico border. She is the author of Divided Peoples: Policy, Activism and Indigenous Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Barbra A. Meek is a Comanche citizen and Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics and Native American Studies at the University of Michigan, where she is currently serving as Associate Dean for the Social Sciences in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Her lab continues to research issues of language and Indigeneity in settler-colonized contexts, from everyday interactions to film and media.

Jacqueline H.E. Messing is Lecturer of Anthropology at the University of Maryland-College Park whose publications center on multilingualism, identity, ideology, and Nahuatl language reclamation in Mexico. Her research additionally includes bilingualism in the U.S., the ethnohistorical analysis of language and race in colonial Mexico, and the circulation of European-American Holocaust narratives.

Book Information
ISBN 9781119906995
Author Jane H. Hill
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd