Season 02 - Episode 01: "Race and Language"

In Season 2, Episode 1 of Anthropological Airwaves, we talk with Adrienne Lo (Waterloo) and Jonathan Rosa (Stanford) about race and language in Korea and the United States. In conversation with Kristina Nielsen and Diego Arispe-Bazán, Lo and Rosa identify and critique the ways that different kinds of English, and by extension the speakers of these different kinds of English, are understood through racialized lenses in varying contexts. These racialized stereotypes of groups of people based on how they are perceived to speak spill over into many social domains, affecting everything from educational policy in the US to economic advancement in Korea. Full episode transcript.  Credits:  Interviewer: Kristina Nielsen & Diego Arispe-Bazán Producer: Diego Arispe-Bazán Editors: Diego Arispe-Bazán and Kyle Olson Featured Audio:  Son Dambi - "Michosso "What’s it like being a foreigner in Korea?" DJ Raff - "Latino and Proud"  "Education gap: the root of inequality" "30 million word gap" President Barack Obama "#Close The Word Gap"

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Anthropological Airwaves is the official podcast of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. It is a venue for highlighting the polyphony of voices across the discipline’s four fields and the infinite—and often overlapping—subfields within them. Through conversations, experiments in sonic ethnography, ethnographic journalism, and other (primarily but not exclusively) aural formats, Anthropological Airwaves endeavors to explore the conceptual, methodological, and pedagogical issues that shape anthropology’s past, present, and future; experiment with new ways of conversing, listening, and asking questions; and collaboratively and collectively push the boundaries of what constitutes anthropological knowledge production. Anthropological Airwaves shares the journal’s commitment to advancing research on the archaeological, biological, linguistic, and sociocultural aspects of the human experience by featuring the work of those who study and practice anthropology within and beyond the academy.