Language: The Colonial and Imperial Difference

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She Blinded Me With Science from her website:   Anna/Everyday I am Anna Lauren Hoffmann, a scholar and writer working at the intersections of data, technology, culture, and ethics. I am currently an Assistant Professor with The Information School at the University of Washington. Before that, I worked as a postdoctoral scholar with the UC Berkeley School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. My work centers on issues in information, data, and ethics, with particular attention to the ways in which discourses, design, and uses of information technology can promote or hinder the pursuit of important human values like respect and justice. In particular, I am interested in how the standards and categories imposed on the world through data, information, and technological systems (or the ways we talk about them) can discriminate by supporting the development of self-respect for some and hindering its development for othe...

Global Language Justice Columbia University has received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a two-year Sawyer Seminar on “Global Language Justice” at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. This new initiative takes language justice as the humanistic equivalent of environmental justice and responds with a sense of urgency to the simultaneity of the rapid dwindling of linguistic diversity and endangered biodiversity.

Today was about rule number 12 (Choose a suitable design and hold to it).  I know some of you was lost, but if you can get sanctified, you can get found. If Latin is the language of learning, what are we doing? I don't promise nothing but to love you like Monk loved Coltrane. So, free yo mind.

Nina Simone

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for more about Horatio Roque Ramirez see the following links National Association of Chicano Studies University of California, Santa Barbara OHA follow the stories (and citations) in these links to learn a little bit more about his work

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Author G. N. Devy is useful here, to call attention to the challenges monolingual and monocultural thinkers face, who produce ideas of translation as anomalous, problematic, and/or characteristic of loss and degradation: “It is natural for the monolingual literary cultures of Europe to be acutely self-conscious of the act of translation. The Indian consciousness, on the other hand, and in a crude manner of differentiating, is itself a ‘translating consciousness.’ The act of shifting form one dialect to another, from one register of speech to another, of mixing two or three languages within the span of a single sentence does not seem unnatural to it” (135-136).  Like Devy, I am arguing, “If translation is a metaphysical enigma, it is yet a powerful political weapon” (136).  The concept of ‘translating consciousness’, and of communities of people possessing it, are no mere notions. In most third world countries, where a dominating colonial language has ...

  in memory of Chinua Achebe Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o the Nobel (?!)

This film is intense and full of the grit of real life. Intimate, Historical and Institutional violence.

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The youth of Rosebud made the video "More Than That" in response to the ABC special Hidden America:  Children of the Plains .  The ABC special sparked outrage in Indian Country.  This is the Rosebud youth's response: Team Esoterica: Write about  a tradition, hardship, insecurity, ect you see present in your life NOW - imagine,  like Robert Look Twice, this aspect of your life was exploited and you became known for it - how would that make you feel? Visuals of  both videos Similarities Differences Language  of both videos Language  used by reporters Language  used by interviewed individuals How does  the language of the video contribute/ limit/ shape future generations? Target audience  of both videos Why did the  Plains Indians feel compelled to make a response video What are  the dangers representing a group’s tradition/ history instead of showcasing their agency/ individuality Difference  between gener...

You may have followed the leadership of the IIYC at Standing Rock , in regards to  #NODAPL.  Over in Chi-town, we have Malcom London ( Black Power Ranger ). He is only one of the youth, women, and queerfolk leading the Black Lives Matter movement.  Recently the LARB featured a piece on London's poetry of resistance.  Check out the link for a beautiful piece about the strength and beauty of Black women .  Finally, in the spirit of winter and Coyote stories, let me introduce you to a funkdafied group of youth from up north, Toronto.  The Native Youth Sexual Health Network are taking their bodies into their own hands and organizing with youth across all First Nations . They have also produced two wonderful videos about our relationships with elders:

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A short list of Policy Paper Guidelines: BU Pardee School of Global Studies Wesleyan University Translating Academic Knowledge into Policy Solutions University of Texas School of Information These links will give you an idea of the shape and scope of the Policy Paper Assignment.  For more details see the grading rubric handout. If you need further assistance with style guides please consult the OWL .  If you need further assistance with grammar ask the Grammar Monkeys .

Here are some video tutorials to help you prepare for your oral presentations.  Remember all of these concepts are linguistically and culturally specific.  Let the language of your piece guide you in your choices. 

NB:   all pages number and concepts refer to McCarty’s text 1.      Prepare answers to the questions on page 91 2.      What are sociohistorical and sociolinguistic profiles? 3.      How does McCarty describe historical circumstances?   Where does she place her focus?   How do you see that reflected in the whole of the text? 4.      How do the five case studies illustrate what McCarty describes as the “universal lesson to be drawn from the project of language revitalization, it must be undertaken and evaluated in terms of locally available resources and locally meaningful goals?” NB:   The five case studies: 1.       Searching for Our Talk and Finding Ourselves 2.      Wôpanâak Language Reclamation 3.      Advocatesfor Indigenous California Language Survival (MAP) 4.    ...

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Tanya Taqag Retribution review album from and for our discussion of The Safety Zone "Which Native beliefs and practices might be judged safe, innocuous, and tolerable?" "Which Native beliefs and practices are too dangerous, different, and subversive of mainstream values?" "How best to manage or eradicate dangerous cultural expression?"  (Lomawaima & McCarty, 2006:5) see pages 42-45 in McCarty (LPP: History, Theory, Praxis) What is the Safety Zone Theory? What are its strengths? What are its limitations? Why is it important for this text?