Resources
Media and Publications:
Media:
“Giving Voice to People Who Have Been Left Out”
Cite:
Minbiole, A. (2022, March 7). ‘Giving Voice to People Who Have Been Left Out.’ Dartmouth. https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2022/03/giving-voice-people-who-have-been-left-out
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Publications:
Nesbitt & Watts (2022)
“Socially distanced but virtually connected: pandemic fieldwork with Black Bostonians”
Cite:
Nesbitt, M., & Watts, A. (2022). Socially distanced but virtually connected: Pandemic fieldwork with Black Bostonians. Linguistics Vanguard, 8(s3), 343–352. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0049
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Nesbitt, Henry, Robinson, Sosa, Dong, Miller & Miller-Broomfield (2023)
“Rhoticity in Black Boston: Examining the effects of ethnicity and ethnic orientation”
Cite:
Nesbitt, M., Henry, M., Robinson, A., Sosa, E., Dong, X., Miller, J., & Miller-Bloomfield, C. (2023, May 8–12). Rhoticity in Black Boston: Examining the effects of ethnicity and ethnic orientation. Poster presented at 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Chicago, Illinois.
Nesbitt, Robinson & Jenkins (2024)
“Black Boston Speaks: A phonological atlas of English in Boston’s Black community”
Cite:
Nesbitt, M., Robinson, A. L. & Jenkins, J. N. (2024, January 4-8). Black Boston Speaks: A phonological atlas of English in Boston’s Black community [Conference presentation]. The American Dialect Society (ADS) Annual Meeting, New York, NY, United States.
More Resources on African American Language:
CORAAL
The Corpus of Regional African American Language (CORAAL) is a public corpus of African American Language (AAL) that contains over 200 sociolinguistic interviews of speakers born from the late 1880s to early 2000s. CORAAL also provides resources for learning AAL linguistic practices for a broad audience of K-12 educators, researchers, and the general population.
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Voices of New York
Voices of New York amplifies the voices of migrant communities by documenting how languages other than English are thriving within New York City.
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Black Linguistic Justice, Black Language Syllabus
#BlackLanguageSyllabus’s mission is to celebrate Black life and language, fight for Black linguistic justice, and help reimagine the relationship between education and Black language.
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PBS Do You Speak American? African American English Lesson
PBS Do You Speak American? African American English lesson offers a high school curricular unit with a brief overview of African American English (AAE) along with quiz questions, activities, and other resources for high school educators.
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Talking Black in America Documentary
The documentary Talking Black in America showcases the variety of speech patterns and life stories of the community of descendants of slavery to raise awareness of the role of language in community building and language prejudice and stereotypes.
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Black Languages Matter: Duolingo Podcast Episode with Dr. Anne Charity Hudley
Dr. Hudley’s lecture in partnership with Duolingo focuses on the languages and language varieties of the Black diaspora to bring awareness to linguistic diversity and justice during pandemic times.
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The Black Language Podcast
The Black Language Podcast’s purpose is to center Black linguistic practices and all the nuances that come with those practices as a way of reaffirming and uplifting Blackness and Black community practices.
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Lingthusiasm Podcast Episode 13: What Does it Mean to Sound Black? Intonation and Identity Interview with Nicole Holliday
Lingthusiasm: Episode 13 features Dr. Nicole Holliday engaging in a conversation about her work on the speech of American black and biracial young men and how prosody and intonation can make someone sound Black.
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