Jonathan Rosa
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Jonathan Rosa
@DrJonathanRosa
Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race bit.ly/2BbM4iz; Language & Social Justice in Practice bit.ly/3X5AIEX
Joined March 2012
- If your proposed response to “systemic” or “institutional” discrimination focuses on modifying individual behaviors, then you do not understand the meaning of systemic or institutional
- I don’t know who told students that the goal of research is to find some previously undiscovered research topic, claim individual ownership over it, & fiercely protect it from theft, but that almost sounds like, well, colonialism, capitalism, & policing
- Indigenous Peoples’ Day is as good a day as any to reflect on colonialism not simply as a historical event that took place centuries ago, but rather an ongoing, global formation of power that profoundly structures pasts, presents, and futures.
- “…the coloniality of language… capture[s] the colonizer’s imagination of the colonized as having no Language, that is, no Eurocentrically valorized expressivity]” —Veronelli
![Broadcast of Bad Bunny’s 2023 Grammy Awards performance with closed captions that read, “[SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] [SINGING IN NON-ENGLISH]”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoRApOSaIAEqwlw.jpg)
- There’s a special place in monolingual, nativist hell for those in higher education who strategically recruit students from China, generate tremendous revenue from their tuition, and then scold them for speaking “Chinese” publicly.
- Hell hath no fury like a slightly inconvenienced privileged person with access to the language of gaslighting, emotional labor, and microaggression
- Reviewing research proposals & reminded to scream into the academic void again that filling a “gap” in the literature is often far less interesting or important than critically examining what produced said gap or the perception thereof
- Being a linguistic anthropologist is fun because I regularly get to remind people that the only difference between “aks”/ask & “diffrent”/different is racism in general and antiblackness in particular. Also, this relatively unremarkable linguistic phenomenon is called metathesis.
- language vs. “academic language” x.com/kara_janell/st…
- Debates about people’s racial identities are exhausting bc despite the deep desire for racial categories & boundaries to be objective & universal, the whole point of racism is that race is whatever colonially anchored power structures need it to be.
- Don’t use terms like “implicit,” “indirect,” or “covert” in relation to racism unless accompanied by the phrase, “as defined by racially evasive white denial rather than perspectives of people targeted by racism, for whom it is often experienced as explicit, direct, & overt”
- Replying to @DrJonathanRosaWhen developing research topics, don’t just identify “gaps” in the literature & reduce your efforts to filling them in—that’s disrespectful to yourself & the work; instead, interrogate the function of particular scholarly avoidances & erasures—what/whose interests do they serve?
- Why are they called “legacies” instead of intergenerational opportunity hoarders?
