COM 2238 - Racialized Language, Power, and Identities (3)

Cross Listed as: EWS 2238
Explores the role of language and communication in articulating, maintaining, and subverting historically shaped race relations and social processes which produce racial, class, social, and gender inequalities and stratifications. Drawing from Ethnic Studies, Communication Studies, and Applied Linguistics, to provide the tools to develop a theoretical vocabulary for discussing how race, racism, social identities of certain racialized groups, ethnocentrism, eurocentrism, and white supremacy are manifested in dominant language ideologies in the U.S. which in turn invalidate the ways Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and/or Latina and Latino Americans speak and communicate. Looks at the multiple ways in which our racial, ethnic, age, gender, and class identities intersect, and how they are reflected and reconstituted through communicative practices. Emphasizes the ways in which cultural backgrounds and social identities affect how we interpret the world, and the ways in which socio-historical relationships of inequality in the US shape communicative practices and racialized identities.

GE Area(s): F
Component(s): Lecture
Grading Basis: Graded Only
Repeat for Credit: May be taken only once
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Course Category: Major Course, GE Course