Mon Aug 28  Introductions and Goals of the Course

• Ahearn, Laura. Ch. 1 "The Socially Charged Life of Language". Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Malden, MA:Wiley Blackwell, 2017 (2nd edition) (ebook/ereserve) (Make sure it's the right edition!!). Reading Guide: pp. 1-16 ONLY.

Wed Aug 30 World-making, Performance, and Reparative Creativity

• Kondo, Dorinne. "Entr'act: : Racial Affect and Affective Violence," and Ch. 1 "Theoretical Scaffolding, Formal Architecture," Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. (ebook/ereserve)

In class: Sign up for discussion facilitation
Handout/Google Doc: Leading a Good Discussion
Demonstration: Using audio, video and images in Moodle

To deepen your understanding of issues and concepts raised this week, consult these sources:

Bauman, Richard. "Performance," in Int'l Encyclopedia of Communications, Oxford, 1989.

Duranti, Alessandro. "Ch. 1, The Scope of Linguistic Anthropology," Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997.

Duranti, Alessandro, ed. Key Terms in Language and Culture. Blackwell, 2001. (bookstore, book reserve)

Dworkin and Roman, ed.s Views Beyond the Border Countery: Raymond Williams and Cultural Politics. London: Routledge, 1993.

Higgins, John. Raymond Williams. Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.

Inglis, Fred. Raymond Williams. Routledge, 1995. Phil Shannon review

Williams, Raymond. "Culture," and "Language," in Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. pp. 11-44.

Willams, Raymond. Keywords: a Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Revised edition. NY: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Check these links out for further information on this week's topics!

Use these links as quick references and contextualizing material. To really delve, you need to print and read all essays, or go look at books and articles in Further Reading.

Remember that materials on the web MUST be evaluated as critically as any other texts we consider in this course. For brief guidelines on thinking critically about the web, click HERE.

Raymond Williams

• Raymond Williams biography
  Phil Shannon's review of Inglis' 1995 biography of Williams for the Green Left Weekly online edition. Gives basic information on Williams' life.
• Review of Raymond Williams biography
  Brief overview of Higgins' 1999 biography of Williams
• Johns Hopkins guide to Literary theory and criticism
  Brief Intro. to Williams' life and work.
• The Raymond Williams Society

Mon Sept 4 LABOR DAY No Class

Wed Sept 6 Centering White Supremacy as Racist World-Making

• Smalls, Krystal and Jenny Davis. Ch. 31 "Language and Racism," A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, First Edition. Edited by Alessandro Duranti, Rachel George, and Robin Conley Riner, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2023. (13 pp). (ebook/ereserve)
• Alim, H. Samy, 'Who’s Afraid of the Transracial Subject? Raciolinguistics and the Political Project of Transracialization', in H. Samy Alim, John R. Rickford, and Arnetha F. Ball (eds), Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race (New York, 2016. (13 pp). (ebook/ereserve)

Handout: Final project: (Auto)Ethnography as/of World-Making
Assign First Comment Partners

DUE: First 400-word Blog Post, Friday Sept 8, midnight, posted to your Moodle blog forum: Introduce yourself and with reference to at least two of the readings from the first two weeks, consider: What do we mean by "world-making" or "raciolinguistics"? Why is language and performance central to world-making? What linguistic and/or performance worlds shape who you are? Does your persona change in different linguistic/performance contexts? How or why? What is at stake for you?

DUE: Comments on Blogs (can be audio or video), Sunday, Sept 10, midnight, your blog partner's Moodle Blog forum: Comments can be in many forms. Ask follow-up questions, comment on or compliment their writing/media use, discuss how their post made you feel, respond to the writer's use of a theorist or key term, bring in a comparison or contrast with your own readings, bring in another author from the course (most important) and then from other courses.

Alim, Samy. "Introducing Raciolinguistics: Racing Language and Languaging Race in Hyperracial Times," Alim, H. Samy, John R. Rickford, and Arnetha F. Ball (eds), Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race. New York, 2016. (ebook) [Seminal anthology in Linguistic anthro]. d

Davis, J. L., & Smalls, K. A. (2021). Dis/possession Afoot: American (Anthropological) Traditions of Anti‐Blackness and Coloniality. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 31(2), 275-282. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12327

Harrison F (ed) (1990/2010) Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further Toward an Anthropology for Liberation. Arlington: American Anthropological Association.

Hill, Jane. 2008. Ch. 2 "Language in White Racism," and Ch. 7 "Everyday Language, White Racist Culture, Respect and Civility," (25 pp). The Everyday Language of White Racism. Wiley-Blackwell.

Jobson R (2020) The case for letting anthropology burn: sociocultural anthropology in 2019. American Anthropologist 122(2): 259–271.

Kroskrity, Paul. "Covert Linguistic Racisms and the (Re-)Production of White Supremacy," J. of Linguistic Anthropology, 2021.

Leonard, Wesley. Toward an Anti-Racist Linguistic Anthropology: An Indigenous Response to White Supremacy, J. of Linguistic Anthropology, 2021.

Lo, Adrienne, and Elaine Chun, 'Language, Race, and Reflexivity: A View from Linguistic Anthropology', in H. Samy Alim, Angela Reyes, and Paul V. Kroskrity (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race, 2020.

Rosa, Jonathan, and Nelson Flores, 'Reimagining Race and Language: From Raciolinguistic Ideologies to a Raciolinguistic Perspective', in H. Samy Alim, Angela Reyes, and Paul V. Kroskrity (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race, 2020; online edn, Oxford Academic. (11 pages). (ebook)

Rosa, Jonathan, and Yarimar Bonilla. 2017. “Deprovincializing Trump, Decolonizing Diversity, and Unsettling Anthropology.” American Ethnologist 44 (2): 1–8

Spears, A. K., & Rosa, J. (2021). Introduction: Language and White Supremacy. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 31(2), 152-156. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12329

Spears, Arthur. "White Supremacy and Antiblackness: Theory and Lived Experience," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2021. (19 pp). [great for delving deeper into the history!]

Mock Language as Pervasive Practice (Content notes: this material can be upsetting to people who feel targeted by these racist practices).

Purdue Chancellor mocks "Asian" languages (Purdue Commencement Dec 2022). Washington Post.

Mike Mena's Vlog guide to Jonathan Rosa's article on Mock Spanish. (includes examples of Trump's speeches), 2020 (Dr. Mike Mena is a Mexican American researcher and Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Mike focuses on the ideological perceptions of race and language in the context of American education. His award-winning YouTube channel, The Social Life of Language, serves as a contemporary and activist pedagogical model to those interested in producing accessible and engaging educational content designed to engage wider publics, with special attention paid to reaching students of color as well as promoting the work of marginalized scholars. 

When Toxic Passengers use Language to Mock Asian People. (Youtube shorts, Jeenie.weenie).

"Asians in the Library," (Alexandra Wallace's rant, UCLA, 2011, Youtube).

Ching Chong! Asians in the Library Song (Response to UCLA's Alexandra Wallace). Jimmy Wong's response to Alexandra Wallace, 2011.

Mon Sept 11 The (White) Western Mainstream: Saussurean Linguistics

• Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in general linguistics, edited by Saussy and Meisel, Columbia U Press. (c1959) (paperback, lib. has 5 copies). (ebook/ereserve); NOTE: Do NOT use the Harris translation, 1986 or the Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye edition of Baskin, the pagination is different! Reading Guide: "Introduction," (p. 1-5), Chapters 2-5 (pp. 6-23,); "Part One, General Principles," and "Part Two Synchronic Linguistics" (pp. 65-78, pp. 100-134 ONLY) (68 pp).
  
• Yaguello, Marina. ch. 4-6, pp. 28-69. Language through the Looking Glass: Exploring Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998 (1981). (ereserve).

Wed Sept 13 Jakobson's Critique: The Multifunctionality of Language

• Jakobson, Roman. "Linguistics and Poetics," in Language in Literature (1958), edited by Krystyna Pomorska and Stephen Rudy. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1987[1960] (ereserve). Reading Guide: FOCUS: pp. 63-73, the six functions of language and defining poetics; SKIM: pp. 74-77, FOCUS: pp. 78-83, verse design, performance and rhyming as parallelism; SKIM: pp. 84-85; FOCUS: pp 86 example of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven; SKIM: pp. 87-92, FOCUS: pp. 93 final comments.
  
• Yaguello, Marina. Ch. 1 What language is for, pp. 6-21. Language through the Looking Glass: Exploring Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998 (1981). (ereserve).

Slide: Jakobson on multifunctional speech events

DUE: Second 400-word Blog Post, Friday Sept 15, Midnight, posted to your Moodle blog forum: Share an example of language and poetics from your online or in-person performance world(s). With reference to week three readings, especially Jakobson, what is "poetic" about the language used in your example? why does it matter?

DUE: Comments (can be audio or video) on Blog Post 2 due Sunday Sept 17, midnight, your blog partner's Moodle blog forum

Ahearn, Laura. "Multifunctionality," in Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Malden, MA:Wiley Blackwell, 2017 (2nd edition). eBook (Make sure it's the right edition!!)

Caton, S. "Contributions of Roman Jakobson". Annual Review of Anthropology 16: 223-60, 1987. (JSTOR)

Chomsky, Noam. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge, Ma: MIT press, 1965.
Locus classicus of his famous distinction between "competence" and "performance", drawing on and refiguring Saussure's Langue vs. Parole distinction.

Culler, Jonathan. Ferdinand de Saussure. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Derrida, Jacques. Of Grammatology. translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1997. Online excerpt.
articulates his famous critique of Saussurean linguistics.

Hymes, Dell. 1981. In vain I tried to tell you: Essays in Native American ethnopoetics. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press.

Jakobson 1942 Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning. Lectures II-IV, pp. 23-107. P217.J3213 1978. articulates his critique of Saussurean linguistics

Jakobson, Roman. "Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances," in Language in Literature, edited by Krystyna Pomorska and Stephen Rudy. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1987 PN54 .J35 1987 (1956). (book reserve) (lib. has 4 copies).

Manning, Paul. [unpub]. Words and Things, Goods and Services: problems of translation between language and political economy. Begins with discussion of structural similiarities between nascent fields of linguistics and economics.

Silverstein, Michael. "Functions," in Duranti, Alessandro, ed. Key Terms in Language and Culture. Blackwell, 2001. (bookstore and book reserve)

Stasch, Rupert. 2006 Structuralism in Anthropology. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, vol. 12, pp. 167-170. Oxford: Elsevier. (4 pages).

Waugh, L.R, and M. Monville-Burston. "Roman Jakobson: His Life and Work," in On Language: Roman Jakobson. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1990. (book reserve, 5 copies).

• Marxists.org
• Johns Hopkins guide to Literary theory and criticism

Roman Jakobson

• Marxists.org
• Johns Hopkins guide to Literary theory and criticism
• Prague School: Johns Hopkins guide to Literary theory and criticis

• Malinowski and Ethnopoetics
  Jerome Rothenberg comments on Malinowski's contributions to the field of ethnopoetics.

Seeking Meaning: Segmenting speech

• Youtube: Talking Cat, UK 2006

• Youtube: Talking Cat with English subtitles!
• Kiffness' song with the Talking Cat, 2022

Seeking Meaning: Imputing a speech event

• Youtube: Conversing Cats

• Youtube: Conversing Cats dubbed in English
  
• Youtube: Conversing Cats dubbed in French

Seeking Meaning: Popular poetics

• Youtube: Rapping, Deconstructed: The Best Rhymers of all time (Vox, May 2016)

Mon Sept 18 Boasian Linguistics: Language as World-Making

• Ahearn, Laura. "Language, Thought and Culture," Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Malden, MA:Wiley Blackwell, 2017 (2nd edition). (ebook/ereserve). (Make sure it's the right edition!!) (6 pp) (ereserve) Reading guide: pg 87-93 ONLY
• Sapir, Edward. 1929. "The Status of Linguistics as a Science," in Selected Writings in Language, Culture and Personality, edited by David G. Mandelbaum, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1985 [c1949] pp. 160-166 (ereserve).
• Whorf, Benjamin. 1939. "Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language," in Language, thought, and reality; selected writings. Edited and with an introd. by John B. Carroll, Levinson and Lee. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2012, p. 134-159. (ereserve), (40 pp). Reading guide: FOCUS: pp. 134-142, SKIM: pp. 142-146, FOCUS pp. 147-156, SKIM: 156-157 (Historical Implications), FOCUS: 158-159.
  

New Comment Partners
Slides: Saussure vs. Sapir and Whorf

Wed Sept 20 Ethnography as World-Making? Rethinking Linguistic Anthropological Methods

• Davis, J. L., & Smalls, K. A. (2021). Dis/possession Afoot: American (Anthropological) Traditions of Anti‐Blackness and Coloniality. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 31(2), 275-282. (7 pp). (ereserve).
• Kroskrity, Paul V., 'Theorizing Linguistic Racisms from a Language Ideological Perspective', in H. Samy Alim, Angela Reyes, and Paul V. Kroskrity (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race, 2020. (15 pp) (ebook/ereserve)
• Ahearn, Laura."The Research Process in Linguistic Anthropology," in Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Malden, MA:Wiley Blackwell, 2017 (2nd edition). (ebook/ereserve) (Make sure it's the right edition!!) (16 pp).

DUE: Third 400-word Blog Post, Friday Sept 22, Midnight, posted to your Moodle blog forum: Consult the final (auto)ethnography project guidelines, and sketch out a possible final project, discuss what performance world you will engage with and how. Give some examples of what/where/how you might record some real-time interaction and discourse. Propose some questions or dilemmas about the nature of language, performance, world-making and personhood you want to explore. Look ahead at the syllabus and suggest readings that could be relevant and why.

DUE: Comments (can be audio or video) on Blog Post 2 due Sunday Sept 24, midnight, your blog partner's Moodle blog forum

Avinelli and Ahlers Engaged Ling Anthro. In New Companion to Ling anth [liberal]

Berlin, B and P. Kay. Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution, Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 1969.
Early argument against extreme linguistic relativism view attributed to Whorf.

Darnell, Regna. "Personality and Culture: the Fate of the Sapirian Alternative," in Stocking, ed. Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others, 1986.

Darnell, Regna. Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist. Berkeley: Univ. of CA press, 1990.

Darnell, Regna. "Linguistic Relativity and Cultural Relativism," in Invisible Geneologies: A history of Americanist Anthropology. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2001. (see me).

Duranti, Alessandro. "Linguistic Diversity," in Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997. (see me).

Duranti, Alessandro. "Relativity," in Duranti, Alessandro, ed. Key Terms in Language and Culture. Blackwell, 2001.

Gumperz and Levinson. "Rethinking Linguistic Relativity," in Current Anthropology 32, 1991 (JSTOR).

Heller, Monica and Bonnie McElhinny. "Americanist Anthropology: the Limits of Cultural Critiques of Evolutionary Racism," (pg 77-90) in Language, Capitalism, and Colonialism: Towards a Critical History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017 [mentioned by Reyes; Lo review: assign ch. 1 on lang, mentions decoloniz, radical hope? Assign ch. 2 which contextualizes Boasians?

Hill, Jane and Bruce Mannheim. "Language and World View," Annual Review of Anthropology 21, 1992. (JSTOR).

Hill, Jane. "Language and World View," in Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988.

Leach, Edmund. 1957 The epistemological background to Malinowski's empiricism. Firth ed. Man and culture: an evaluation of the work of Bronislaw malinowski. London: routledge.
Scathing critique of the limitations of Malinowski's pragmatism and functionalism.

Leonard, Wesley. "Centering Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Collaborative Language Work," in Sustaining Indigenous Languages: Connecting Communities, Teachers, and Scholars. Northern Arizona University Press, 2021 (10 pp).

Keane, Webb. 2013. "Ontologies, anthropologists, and ethical life," Hau: Journal of Ethnographic theory 3(1): 186-91. Response from a Chicago-trained linguistic anthropologist to recent debates about 'ontologies'.

Keane, Webb. 2003. "Self-Interpretation, Agency, and the Objects of Anthropology: Reflections on a Geneology," CSSH. (online).

Malinowski, Bronislaw. "The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages," in Ogden and Richards, eds., The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language Upon Thought and of The Science of Symbolism. NY: Harcourt Brace, 1923. (book reserve, lib. has 1 copy, or see me).
Sapir critiqued this essay a year before he published "Status of Linguistics as a Science.

Moten Fred, and Stefano Harney (2013) The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. New York: Autonomedia. [See their notion of "Black study" as counter-ethnographic work]

Sahlins, Marshall. "Colors and Cultures," in Semiotica 16: 1-22, 1976.
Early critique of Berlin and Kay's conclusions

Silverstein, Michael. 1977. "The Limits of Awareness," in Duranti, ed., Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader, Blackwell, 2001.

Tambiah, Stanley. "The Magical Power of Words," Man, New Series, Vol. 3, No. 2. (Jun., 1968), pp. 175-208,(JSTOR), also reprinted in Culture, Thought and Social Action. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1985[1968]. (Reed has three copies)
Sustained critique and rethinking of Malinowski's data and conclusions in Coral Gardens.

Edward Sapir (1884-1939)
Darnell and Irvine's biography

The Mind of Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941)
David Lavery's paper on Whorf

"The Great Whorf Hypothesis Hoax," Dan Moonhawk Alford on Benjamin Whorf
Nice overview of the polarized reception of Whorf's ideas among linguists from a Native American (Cherokee) linguist who defends Whorf by investigating his notion of linguistic relativity via physics.

What he is most "notorious" for is what he clearly labeled the principle of
linguistic relativity but which other academics, for their own reasons,
renamed the Whorf Hypothesis -- trying to fit what he was saying into their
19th C. "science" box despite the fact that Whorf was referring here and other
places in his writings to a 20th C. understanding of relativity and quantum
physics; the critics were outclassed before they began.

Linguistic Relativity: Wikipedia on the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Mon Sept 25 Du Bois' Pragmatism Amid Transnational White Supremacy

• Sullivan, Shannon. 2020. ch. 11 "Racism, Colonialism, and the Crisis of Democracy, The Contributions of W.E.B. Du Bois," Pragmatism and Social Philosophy: Exploring a Stream of Ideas from America, edited by Michael G. Festl (15 pp) (ereserve).
• Du Bois, W.E.B. "Forethought," Ch. 1 "Spiritual Strivings," Ch. VII "Of the Black Belt," Ch VIII "Of the Quest for the Golden Fleece" (~45 pp), The Souls of Black Folk. Oxford University Press, 2008 [1903]. (ebook/ereserve).

Wed Sept 27 Reckoning with A Du Boisian Methodology

• Du Bois, W.E.B  2000[1905]. "Sociology Hesitant." Boundary 2 27(3):37–44.  (9 pp). (ereserve)
• Chandler, Nahum. "The Figure of W. E. B. Du Bois as a Problem for Thought," CR: The New Centennial Review , winter 2006, Vol. 6, No. 3, W. E. B. Du Bois and the Questions of Another World (winter 2006), pp. 29-55. (ereserve)
• Moten, Fred and Stefano Harney (with Constantina Zavitsanos), excerpt from panel on "Speculative Planning" (40:38-54:00), Moten on Du Bois, double consciousness, and the refusal to be One, and the strange meaning of being Black, 2016.

DUE: Fourth 400-word Blog Post, Friday Sept 29, Midnight, posted to your Moodle blog forum: With reference to at least two of the readings from week 5 and before, what does a Du Boisian "pragmatic" methodology bring to your understanding of the promise and politics of world-making and personhood? What could a Du Boisian ethnography look like? How might that be reflected in your own project?

DUE: Comments (can be audio or video) on Blog Post 2 due Sunday Oct 1, midnight, your blog partner's Moodle blog forum

Chandler, Nahum Dimitri. X : The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought. (Sustained engagement with Du Bois' thought; very influential for Fred Moten).

Drake, St. Clair. on Du Bois.

Fanon Ch. 5 Lived experience of The Black Man, Black Skin, White Masks. (Often discussed in tandem with Du Bois).

Fanon ch. 1 The Black Man and Language, 15 pages Black Skin, White Masks (mentioned by Reyes)

Glaude, Eddie S., Jr. In a Shade of Blue : Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America. University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Harrison, Faye. The Du Boisian legacy in Anthropology. [good introduction to the history of African American and Pan-African Anthropology].

Itzigsohn, J., & Brown, K. (2015). SOCIOLOGY AND THE THEORY OF DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Phenomenology of Racialized Subjectivity. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 12(2), 231-248.

James, William. Excerpt "Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means," in Pragmatism: a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking. The Floating Press, 2008 (1907). (30 pp). ebook

Judy, Ronald. Introduction to Special Issue on Du Bois' "Sociology Hesitant," Boundary 2 27(3).

Morris, Aldon. The Scholar Denied: WEB Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology. Univ of Calif Press, 2015. [Professor of sociology at Northwestern University—who resurrected Du Bois’ rightful place at the birth of sociology this book. He details how the black students of Du Bois’ program were practicing and engaging in sociological work decades before their counterparts in the Chicago school, much remains to be learned about the work being done in Du Bois’ sociology laboratory.]

Moten, Fred. Stolen life (sustained engagement with Du Bois thru Chandler).

New Yorker Magazine Biographic essay about Fred Moten

Mulligan, Nancy Muller. "W.E.B. Du Bois' American Pragmatism," Journal of American Culture, 1985. (8 pp).

Rusert, Britt and Whitney Battle-Baptiste. W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2018.

West, Cornel. The American Evasion of Philosophy : A Genealogy of Pragmatism. [West's close colleague Eddie Glaude, in his In a Shade of Blue, says West places Du Bois in the pantheon of American pragmatism; West focuses on Emerson to Dewey to Du Bois, comments on Peirce and James, but finds them less relevant; section on Du Bois is a detailed intellectual and political biography, but does not delve into his intellectual premises/methods.]

Zuckerman, Phil. The Social Theory of W.E.B DuBois. Sage Press.

What is Pragmatism?

Pragmatism
Legg, Catherine and Christopher Hookway, "Pragmatism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)

Pragmatism
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (peer-reviewed).

The Life and Times of W.E.B. Du Bois

Gooding-Williams, Robert, Section 3.2. "W.E.B. Du Bois", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).
Includes chronology of his life, bibliography of his work, and secondary sources/debates

Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery
Short biography of Du Bois by his alma mater, Harvard. "W. E. B. Du Bois was a scholar, public intellectual, author, orator, and activist who used his powerful voice and influence to illuminate issues of race, racism, and Black consciousness. He is also one of Harvard’s best-known graduates. Co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and editor of its magazine, the Crisis, Du Bois authored dozens of books examining the Black experience in the United States, including his seminal collection of sociological essays, Souls of Black Folk."

W.E.B. Du Bois National Historic Site
Historic site established in Du Bois' home town of Great Barrington, MA. Includes biography and links to Du Bois collections online

W.E.B. Du Bois' African-American Portraits
NPR report on a new book collecting the 500 portraits of Black American life Du Bois curated for the 1900 Paris Exhibition. "Du Bois put on exhibit 500 photographs that symbolized black life in America 35 years after the end of slavery. And he chose with care. The photos, many of them portraits, show the trappings of middle- and upper-class life: ornate clothing, fancy hats, jewelry, confident poses. Du Bois intended the photographs to counteract stereotypes of blacks as poor, uneducated, or the victims of American racism".

Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies at Harvard
Short biography of W.E.B. Du Bois at the Hutchins Center. Includes secondary sources and links.

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Robert Williams' website featuring links to much of Du Bois' archive

W.E.B Du Bois
Blackpast.org's history

Mon Oct 2 Performatives as Acts of Speech

• Austin, J.L. 1962 [1955]. How to do things with words, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. Reading Guide: Lectures 1-5, (pp. 1-66), Lecture 8 (pp. 98-108 ONLY), Lecture 11 (133-147) (80 pp) (ebook/ereserve).
• Searle, John. "a Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts," in Expression and meaning : studies in the theory of speech acts. Cambridge, Eng. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979. pp. 1-29. (ereserve). Reading Guide: READ: pp. 1-12, SKIM pp. 12-20 (Alternative taxonomy: look at his definitions of each kind of speech act), SKIP: pp. 20-27 (Some Syntactical aspects..), READ: Conclusions pp. 27-29.
  

Slide: Austin's Felicity Conditions
Slide: Searle vs. Austin

• Rosaldo, Michele. 1980. The things we do with words: Ilongot speech acts and speech act theory in philosophy. Language in Society 11: 203-237. (ereserve).

Ahearn, Laura. Living Language. ch. 9 Performance, performativity and competence

Austin, J.L. "Performative Utterances," in Philosophical Papers, 2nd edition, Urmson and Warnock, eds., London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970(1956).
good brief summary of his arguments.

Roy D'Andrade, ed. Searle on Institutions. in Anthropological Theory, March 1 2006, Volume 6, No. 1. Available online [very recent debates btw anthro critics and Searle himself!]

Derrida, Jacques. 1971. "Signature, Event, Context, " in Limited, inc., Evanston: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1988.

Duranti, Alessandro and Charles Goodwin, "Rethinking Context: an Introduction," in Duranti and Goodwin, eds. Rethinking context : language as an interactive phenomenon, Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Duranti, Alessandro. "Speaking as Social Action," in Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997.

Duranti, Alessandro. "Truth and Intentionality: an Ethnographic Critique," Cultural Anthropology 8(2), 1993: 214-245.

Duranti, Alessandro and Charles Goodwin. "Rethinking Context: an Introduction," in Duranti, Alessandro and Charles Goodwin, eds. Rethinking context : language as an interactive phenomenon, Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991

Grice: "ch. 1 Prolegomena" (sustained critique of Searle) and ch. 2 Logic and Conversation, in Studies in the Ways of Words, Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1989. (2 hardcover in lib.).

Hall, Kira. "Performativity," in Duranti, Alessandro, ed. Key Terms in Language and Culture. Blackwell, 2001.

Hollan, Douglas. "Cross-cultural Differences in the Self," in Journal of Anthropological Research 48(4): 283-300, 1992.

Keenan, Elinor Ochs. 1976. "The Universality of Conversational Postulates," in Language in Society 5: 67-80.
Response to Grice's theory of universal conversational "implicatures".

Jakobson, Roman. Ch. 6, On Language [attempts to reconcile Saussure and Peirce on the sign]

Levinson, S. Ch. 5 Speech Acts, Pragmatics, Cambridge, 1983.

Ochs, Elinor. "Experiencing Language," Anthropological Theory 12: 142, 2012.

Sbisa, Marina. "Act," in Duranti, Alessandro, ed. Key Terms in Language and Culture. Blackwell, 2001.

Searle, John. 1977. "Reiterating the Differences: a Reply to Derrida," Gylph 1 (10 pp.)

Searle, John. especially Ch.s 2 and 3 (pp. 22-71), Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge University Press, 1984(1969).

Searle, John. A classification of Illocutionary acts Language in Society 5: 1-23, 1976.

Silverstein, Michael. "Cultural Prerequisites to Grammatical Analysis. in M. Saville-Troike, ed., Linguistics and Anthropology: Georgetown Univesity Round Table on Languages and Lingustics 1977 (pp. 139-51). Washington, D.C: Georgetown University press, 1977.

Silverstein, Michael. 1979. "Language structure and linguistic ideology," in The Elements: a Parasession on Linguistic Units and levels. Clyne, Hanks, Hofbauer, eds., Chicago: C Linguist Soc., , pp. 193-247.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. paragraphs 1-88, 197-242, 398-427, 630-693, Philosophical Investigations. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967. (see me).
Contemporary of Austin, articulates his 'language games' theory of meaning in use touted by recent linguistic anthropologists. See film on him in Reed library.

Slide: Saussure vs. Malinowski

John Langshaw Austin (1911-1960)

Austin Profile
Philosophy pages' brief biography of Austin

Austin's Work
Philosophy pages' brief overview of Austin's work

Notes on Austin
English Prof. Warren Hedges' notes on Austin's How to do things with Words

John Searle (1932-)

Searle Profile
Philosophy pages' brief biography of Searle.

Searle articles online
These are pdf files Searle himself posted on his website at Berkeley.

Interview with Searle
Fascinating interview with the man himself the Institute of International Studies, Berkeley.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

Wittgenstein's work on language
Austin and Searle in some ways were engaged in a polemic against Wittgenstein's ideas. Philosophy pages' brief overview of Wittgenstein's work

Jacques Derrida (1930-)

Johns Hopkins Guide profile of Derrida

Johns Hopkins guide entry on "deconstruction"

Stanford Profile of Derrida
Stanford presidential lectures links on derrida's life and works

Of Grammatology (1967) online
Marxist.org excerpt from on grammatology

Derrida Online Archive
Extensive online archive of Derrida texts

Roundtable discussion w/Derrida 1994

Culture machine's interview with Derrida 1998

Michele Rosaldo (1944-1981)

Michele Zimbalist Rosaldo Royal Anthro Institute's obituary

Invisibilia: A Man Finds An Explosive Emotion Locked In A Word. Michele's husband Renato speaks of her tragic death in 1981, NPR podcast 2017.

The Day of Shelly's Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief. Anthropologist Renato Rosaldo's book about his wife's tragic death, 2014.
This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family had arrived in the northern Philippine village of Mungayang, where she and her husband Renato, both accomplished anthropologists, planned to conduct fieldwork. On October 11, Shelly died after losing her footing and falling some sixty feet from a cliff into a swollen river. Renato Rosaldo explored the relationship between bereavement and rage in his canonical essay, "Grief and a Headhunter's Rage," which first appeared in 1984 and is reprinted here. In the poems at the heart of this book, he returns to the trauma of Shelly's death through the medium of free verse, maintaining a tight focus on the events of October 11, 1981. He explores not only his own experience of Shelly's death but also the imagined perspectives of many others whose lives intersected with that tragic event and its immediate aftermath, from Shelly herself to the cliff from which she fell, from the two young boys who lost their mother to the strangers who carried and cared for them, from a tricycle taxi driver, to a soldier, to priests and nuns.

Films in Reed Library:

The philosophy of language. BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1997
Berkeley philosopher of language John Searle discusses the question: "How does language relate to thought and to reality?"

Bryan Magee talks to John Searle about Wittgenstein. BBC Education & Training ; devised and presented by Bryan Magee, BBC, 1987

Youtube:

Illocutionary Acts: Obama's Swearing in (Jan 2009)

Obama's swearing in ceremony (January 2009)

CNN on Obama's swearing in mistakes

Brian Williams on Obama's swearing in mistakes

Fox News, Glenn Beck on Obama's swearing in mistakes

Locutionary Acts: Sean Spicer on Trump's Inauguration (Jan 2017, Sept 2017)

Sean Spicer First Press Conference (Jan 2017)

Sean Spicer Emmys Appearance (Sept 2017)

Mon Oct 9 Charles Sanders Peirce and The Generativity of Signs

• Manning, Paul. 2012. Introduction excerpt, p. 1-14, The Semiotics of Drinks and Drinking. New York: Continuum. (ereserve)
• Pierce, Charles. Ch. 7 "Logic as Semiotic: The Theory of Signs," (98-119) in Philosophical Writings of Pierce. Buchler, ed. New York: Dover Publications. 1955 (1940). (ereserve).

Peircean sign game
Slides: Peircean Sign Relations

Wed Oct 11 Contextualizing Signs: Indexicality and Raciosemiotics

• Ahearn, Laura. "Indexicality," in Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Malden, MA:Wiley Blackwell, 2017 (2nd edition). (Make sure it's the right edition!!) Reading Guide: p. 28-32 ONLY (4 pgs) (ebook/ereserve)
• Reyes, Angela. "Postcolonial Semiotics," in A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, First Edition. Edited by Alessandro Duranti, Rachel George, and Robin Conley Riner, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2023. (11 pgs). (ebook/ereserve).
• Smalls, Krystal A., 'Race, SIGNS, and the Body: Towards a Theory of Racial Semiotics', in H. Samy Alim, Angela Reyes, and Paul V. Kroskrity (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race, 2020. (19 pgs) (ebook/ereserve).

DUE: Fifth 400-word Blog Post, Friday Oct 13, Midnight, posted to your Moodle blog forum: With reference to at least two of the readings from weeks 6 and 7, consider your proposed performance world for your final project. What embodied signs are central in your chosen performance context? How might those signs be "performative" (world-making)? In what ways? What might be the stakes of these embodied semiotics? For whom?

DUE: Comments (can be audio or video) on Blog Post 2 due Sunday Oct 22, midnight, your blog partner's Moodle blog forum

Fall Break Oct 14-20

Duranti, Alessandro. overview on The force of indexicality, with ethnographic examples, New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology.

Jakobson, Roman. 1957 "Shifters and Verbal Categories," in On Language, edited by Linda R. Waugh and Monique Monville-Burston, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1990 (pp. 386-392),

Pierce, Charles. Ch. 6 "The Principles of Phenomenology," (pp. 74-97) in Philosophical Writings of Pierce. Buchler, ed. New York: Dover Publications. 1955 (1940).f

Silverstein, Michael. 1976 "Shifters, Linguistic Categories, and Cultural Description." In Meaning in Anthropology, ed.s K. Basso and H. Selby, pp. 11-56. GN452.5.M4

Rethinking Peirce: Postcolonial and Anti-racist Critiques

Neville, Robert Cummings. How Racism Should Cause Pragmatism to Change. American Journal of Theology & Philosophy . Vol. 39, No. 1, January 2018. [Discusses Peirce's racism and the racist sociopolitical milieu of U.S. pragmatists in general in the late 19th century; suggests ways Peircean semiotics could be turned to anti-racist agendas].
Peirce and James and their siblings were in their twenties during the Civil War, and that cataclysm
determined how they and their circles related to race. Their careers unfolded during the period of Manifest Destiny as the nation recoiled from the Civil War and looked West. James died in 1910 and Peirce in 1914, months before the beginning of the First World War.

Raposa, Michael L. "Peirce and Racism: Biographical and Philosophical Considerations: Presidential Address," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy
Indiana University Press. Volume 57, Number 1, Winter 2021. [seeks to recuperate Peircean semiotics for anti-racist agendas].

Smalls, K. A. (2021). Fat, Black, and Ugly: The Semiotic Production of Prodigious Femininities. Transforming Anthropology, 29(1), 12-28. https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12208

Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914)

Online Dictionary of Peirce's terms in his own words

Mon Oct 23 Analyzing and Transcribing Multimodal Interactions

• Ahearn, Laura. Ch. 2 "Gestures, Sign Languages, and Multmodality," . Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Malden, MA:Wiley Blackwell, 2017 (2nd edition). (ebook/ereserve) (Make sure it's the right edition!!) (12 pp). Reading Guide: READ pp. 34-35, SKIM 36-41, READ pp. 41-51 on gestures
• Goffman, Erving. "Footing," in Forms of Talk. Philadelphia: Univ. of Penn. Press, 1981. (ereserve). (30 pp).
• Duranti, Alessandro. Ch. 5 "Transcription: From Writing to Digitized Images,"  Linguistic Anthropology. 1997.  (25 pp). Reading Guide: p. 134-161 ONLY (ebook/ereserve).

Wed Oct 25 The Dynamics of Multimodal Spoken Performance: Moodle Discussion Forum

• Bauman, Richard. "Verbal Art as Performance," in American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 77, No. 2. (Jun., 1975), pp. 290-311. (ereserve).
• Alim, H.S., Williams, Q.E., Haupt, A. and Jansen, E. (2021), “Kom Khoi San, kry trug jou land”: Disrupting White Settler Colonial Logics of Language, Race, and Land with Afrikaaps. J. Linguist. Anthropol., 31: 194-217. (21 pp) (ereserve).
• Reese will send around a few discussion questions tonight as usual. Then, by 8 pm Wednesday, please respond to at least ONE of the questions by hitting "reply" to Reese's post. Your response should refer to and quote at least one specific aspect of at least one of our texts. About 250 words would be fine! Then, please respond briefly to your partner's comments (can be audio!).

Ahearn, Laura. Living Language. verbal art as performance

Bauman, Richard. "The Role of Performance in the Ethnography of Speaking," in Working Papers Proc. Cent. Psychosoc. Studies 11: 3-12, 1987.

Bauman and Briggs. "Poetics and Performance as Critical Perspectives on Language and social life," Annual Review of Anthropology 19: 59-88, 1990. (JSTOR)
Updated approach responding especially to Limon and Young's critique.

 Bauman, Richard and Joel Sherzer. "The Ethnography of Speaking," in Annual Review of Anthropology 4, 1975. (JSTOR)

Bauman, Richard and Joel Sherzer. "Introduction to the 2nd Edition," in Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking, Bauman and Sherzer, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989.

Darnell, Regna. "Correlates of Cree Narrative Performance," in Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking, Bauman and Sherzer, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989.

Goffman, Erving. "Felicity's Condition," in The Goffman Reader, Lemert and Branaman, eds., Blackwell, 1997. Explicitly critiques Austinian speech act theory.

Goffman, Erving. 1983. "Frame Analysis of Talk," (Excerpt from "Felicity's Condition,") in The Goffman Reader, Lemert and Branaman, eds., Blackwell, 1997 (p 167-192).

Goodwin, Marjorie. "Participation," in Duranti, Alessandro, ed. Key Terms in Language and Culture. Blackwell, 2001. (bookstore and book reserve).

Gumperz, John. Discourse Strategies, 1982 P95.45 .G8 1982 c.2 (2 in lib.)
Develops his notion, based on Goffman, of "contextualization cues" in conversation.

-----------------. "Contextualization and Understanding," Duranti, Alessandro and Charles Goodwin, eds. Rethinking context : language as an interactive phenomenon, Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Gumperz, John and Noreen Berenz, Transcribing Conversation Exchanges, Talking data: transcription and coding in discourse research, pp. 91-121, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993

Hymes, Dell. Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Perspective. Philadelphia: Univ. of Penn, Press, 1974.
Foundational text for sociolinguistic challenge to Chomskyian linguistics' dichotomy between competence and performance.

Hymes, Dell. "On Communicative Competence," in Duranti, ed., Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader, Blackwell, 2001. (book reserve)
Programmatic piece spelling out his critique of Chomsky's performance/competence dichotomy.

Hymes, Dell. "Breakthrough into Performance," in Ben-Amos and Gowstein, eds. Folklore: Performance and Communication, The Hague. 1975.
Oft-cited seminal ethnography.

J. E. Limon; M. J. Young. Frontiers, Settlements, and Development in Folklore Studies, 1972-1985 Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 15. (1986), pp. 437-460. (JSTOR)
Important critique of early performance studies in anthropology arguing the focus has been too micro, not enough attention to larger political economic contexts.

Murphy, Kevin. Multimodality.

Silverstein, Michael. What goes around. . .: Some Shtick from ‘Tricky Dick’ and the Circulation of U.S. Presidential Image. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 21(1):54-77.

Erving Goffman (1922-1982)

• Goffman Profile
  brief bio, info re: his life and works
• Celebrating Goffman
  By Eliot Freidson, in Contemporary Sociology, 12 (4) July, 1983: 359-362. This paper was read at a memorial session for Erving Goffman at the Eastern Sociological Society meeting in Baltimore, March 4, 1983.
• Goffman Profile
  Diane Blackwood essay on G's life and works

Afrikaaps

• Afrikaaps (Plexis Films 2010)
  documentary film mentioned by Alim et al (Youtube); includes footage of the theatre production "Afrikaaps"
• "Kom Khoisan" The rap "Kom Khoisan," originally from the "Afrikaaps" theatre production, superimposed on 2012 video footage of police repressing a protest.
• "Ons Klank" The song "Ons Klank" by white pop singer Nadia Louw.

Youtube:

Comedy: Race, Ethnicity and Gesture

Robin Thede Black Lady Sign language

Chad Korb hand gestures

Top 10 funny Indian gestures

What Indian hand gestures mean

What Indian head shakes mean

Greek hand gestures

John Yeong Searching for the universal hand gesture

Stanford business school: make body language your superpower

Consequential Interactions

George W. Bush's infamous shoulder rub of German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CBS footage, G-8 summit, July 2006)

George W. Bush is booed by Dems at 2005 State of the Union speech

Senator Arlen Specter confronted at town hall meeting (on health care, Aug. 2009)

Congressman Dingell town hall meeting pre-event crowd (Aug. 2009)

Petaluma town hall meeting angry responses from crowd (Aug. 2009)

Rep. Caster town hall meeting disrupted (Aug. 2009)

S. Carolina GOP rep Joe Wilson yells "you lie!" to President Obama (ABC news, Obama speech to joint session of congress, Sept 2009)

Kevin Skinner on America's Got Talent (2009)

My Fair Lady: Why Can't the English

My Fair Lady: The Rain in Spain

My Fair Lady: The Embassy Ball

Verbal performances and Market Value: Antiques Roadshow

Million dollar jade (2010)

Clifford Still Painting (2009)

Editing and Framing (stock footage)

This is a Generic Brand Video (parody brand ad using databased stock footage and music)

Youtube:

Cranston News Interview (2009): interviewee refuses interview frame

Today show interview fail (2008): TV-mediated time lag obstructs possibility for referential content at all

Kermit Interviews the Koosbanian Phoob (1970s): interviewee refuses proper respondent role

Guy Interviews LA Clippers Basketball star Sam Cassell (2007): invalid presuppositions, interviewee breaks frame

Sarah Palin Katie Couric Interview vs. SNL parody (CBS, NBC 2008): Palin's responses referentially obscure; Couric and Palin vie over communicative competence

Mon Oct 30 The Performance of Voice(s): Verbal Art in the Novel

• Bakhtin, Mikhail. "Discourse in the Novel," (pp. 257-366), The Dialogic Imagination : four essays; edited by Michael Holquist ; translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist Austin : University of Texas Press, c1981.  Reading Guide: READ pp. 259-300, SKIM 301-336 (look at ONE example of how a novelist uses multiple voices for a particular aim), READ p. 337-348 (section on 'reported speech'), SKIM 349-357, READ pp. 358-366, (72 pp) (ebook/ereserve).
  

Wed Nov 1 The Stakes of Performing Voices: Anthros' Bakhtinian Analyses

• Hill, Jane. "The Grammar of Consciousness and the Consciousness of Grammar," Brenneis and Macaulay, eds. The Matrix of Language. Boulder: Westview press, 1998. (ereserve).
• Limon, Jose. "Carne, Carnales, and the Carnivalesque: Bakhtinian Batos, disorder, and Narrative discourses," Brenneis and Macaulay, eds. The Matrix of Language. Boulder: Westview press, 1998. (ereserve).

Slide: Hill on Heteroglossia

DUE: Sixth 400-word Blog Post, Sunday, Nov 5, Midnight, posted to your Moodle blog forum: With reference to at least two of the readings from previous weeks, practice your descriptive writing of a particular interaction in your chosen performance world. Describe the event for a larger audience, for "Clueless Reader": what do they need to understand in order to grasp what is being conveyed and created in this interaction? How do you credibly describe evidence of those practices and their implications? What complexities or ethical dilemmas do you encounter in doing so? For your final project, what larger story might you tell about world-making in your chosen performance context?

DUE: Comments (can be audio or video) on Blog Post 2 due Monday Nov 6, midnight, your blog partner's Moodle blog forum

Bakhtin, Mikhail. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, 1986.

Bauman, Richard. "Contextualization, Tradition and the Dialogue of genres: Icelandic Legends of the kraftaskald, in Duranti and Goodwin, Rethinking Context. 1990.

Bauman, Richard. "Genre," in Duranti, Alessandro, ed. Key Terms in Language and Culture. Blackwell, 2001. (bookstore and book reserve)

Briggs, Charles. "Generic vs. metapragmatic dimensions of Warao narratives: who regiments performance?" in Lucy, ed. Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics, Cambridge, 1993.

Hill, Jane. "The Voices of Don Gabriel: Responsibility and Self in a Modern Mexicano Narrative," in Tedlock and Mannheim, eds. The Dialogic Emergence of Culture. Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1995. (bookstore and book reserve).

Holquist, Michael. Dialogism: Bakhtin and his World. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Ivanov, Vyacheslav. "Heteroglossia," in Duranti, Alessandro, ed. Key Terms in Language and Culture. Blackwell, 2001. (bookstore and book reserve).

Makley, Charlene. “The Power of the Drunk: Humor and Resistance in China’s Tibet,” Jennifer Dickinson et al, (Eds.), Linguistic Form and Social Action, Michigan Discussions in Anthropology 13: 39-79, 1998.

----------------------. (2013). "The Politics of Presence: Voice, Deity Possession, and Dilemmas of Development Among Tibetans in the PRC," Comparative Studies in Society and History.

---------------------. (2018). The Battle for Fortune. Cornell University Press.

Stam, Robert. "Mikhail Bakhtin and Left Cultural Critique," in Ann Kaplan, ed. Postmodernism and its Discontents, London: Verso, 1988.

Stewart, Susan. "Shouts on the Street: Bakhtin's Anti-Linguistics," Critical Inquiry 10, December 1983.
Very good introduction to Bakhtin.

Tedlock, Dennis and Bruce Mannheim. "Introduction," in Tedlock and Mannheim, eds. The Dialogic Emergence of Culture. Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1995. (bookstore and book reserve).

Todorov. Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogic Principle. 1981.

Volosinov, V.N. 1929. Marxism and the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press 1986.

Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)

The Bakhtin Circle
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy's account of the Bakhtin Circle

Bakhtin: Filosofia: An Encyclopedia of Russian Thought
Nice accessible overview and biography

The Annotated Bakhtin Bibliography
Carole Adlams' Bakhtin bibliography (Google books)

Bakhtin Centre
The Bakhtin Centre at the University of Sheffield, UK; links to database on primary and secondary works on/by Bakhtin and his circle, email discussion lists and more.

• Hartman, Saidiya. New Preface and Ch. 2 "Redressing the Pained Body: Toward a theory of practice." Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth-century America (25th anniversary, new revised edition, new preface), Columbia University Press). 2022 (1997). (ereserve/ebook)

Wed Nov 8 Blackness and Fugitive Performance

• Moten, Fred and Stefano Harney. Ch. 0 (Halberstam) and Ch. 1 "Politics Surrounded", Ch. 3 "Blackness and Governance", The Undercommons, 2013. (~30 pp).
  

Campt, Tina. Listening to Images (Duke University Press, 2017). [Close friend and colleague of Hartman].

-----------------. Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe (Duke University Press, 2012).

Chandler, Nahum Dimitri. X : The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought. (Sustained engagement with Du Bois' thought; very influential for Fred Moten).

Drake, St. Clair. on Du Bois.

Fanon Ch. 5 Lived experience of The Black Man, Black Skin, White Masks. (Often discussed in tandem with Du Bois).

Fanon, Wretched of the Earth

Hartman, Saidiya. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007)
...combines elements of historiography and memoir in a meditation on her travels to Ghana in search of a deeper understanding of the experience of enslavement (Black Art Story)

----------------------. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (2019)
...immerses readers in the interior lives of young black women who fled the South and moved to Northern cities in the early twentieth century. While drawing from sociological surveys, tenement photographs, reformatory case files, and other sources, she critiques the pathologizing portrayals these official documents present and recovers stories of resistance enacted by famous women (Black Art Story)

Moten, Fred. Stolen life (sustained engagement with Du Bois thru Chandler).

Moten Fred, and Stefano Harney (2013) The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. New York: Autonomedia. [See their notion of "Black study" as counter-ethnographic work]

Jared Sexton, “The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism” in InTensions Number 5 (Fall/Winter 2011) 28. [cited by Malaklou]

 Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Duke Univ Press, 2016.

Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman at Columbia University

"Who is Saidiya Hartman?", Black Art Story

New Yorker Magazine. "How Saidiya Hartman Retells the History of Black Life," 2020.

New Yorker Magazine. "The enduring Power of Scenes of Subjection," 2022.

Fred Moten

Fred Moten's Radical Critique of the Present (Biographic essay, The New Yorker, 2018)

Stefano Harney

Stefano Harney (at European Graduate School and Singapore School of Management)

The Undercommons

"Wildcat The Totality: Fred Moten And Stefano Harney Revisit The Undercommons In A Time Of Pandemic And Rebellion (Part 1) (Audio interview, July 2020)

"Give Your House Away, Constantly: Fred Moten And Stefano Harney Revisit The Undercommons In A Time Of Pandemic And Rebellion (Part 2) (Audio interview, July 2020)

Harney and Moten: The University, last words (Zoom conference with striking grad students in Univ of California system (July 2020)

Zach Ngin. "Flights of Fantasy: On Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s Undercommons," illustrated blog commentary, (The Indy, Feb 2020)

Sami Cleland. "Book Review of the Undercommons" (good summary), Critique and Praxis 13/13, 2019.

Blu Buchanan and Kush Patel. Dodgy Scholars: Resisting the Neoliberal Academy. (conversation between two self-identified members of the academic undercommons).

Lisa Corrigan. "Review: Decolonizing Philosophy and Rhetoric: Dispatches from the Undercommons." Philosophy & Rhetoric Vol. 52, No. 2 (2019), pp. 163-188.

Fred Moten online

Fred Moten lecture: "Blackness and Nonperformance," Afterlives, MOMA, 2016. (49:00)

Fred Moten, and Stefano Harney (with Constantina Zavitsanos), excerpt from panel on "Speculative Planning" (40:38-54:00) on Du Bois, double consciousness, and the refusal to be One, and the strange meaning of being Black, 2016.

Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman, "The Black Outdoors," Panel at Duke University, 2017

Fred Moten gets the Macarthur Genius Award 2020 (video)

Saidiya Hartman Online

Jay-Z's 4:44 short film (2017).
Features Saidiya Hartman, influenced by her's and other radical Black feminist thinkers.

M. Shadee Malakalou, "Jay-Z's 4:44 Moves Black Radical thought Through and Beyond the Classroom," Counterpunch, 2017 (tells of the ways Jay-Z cites Hartman and other Black feminist thinkers).

Saidiya Hartman with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor discuss the revised and updated Scenes of Subjection, 2022.

Stefano Harney online

Prosperity Marxism – Episode 10: On THE UNIVERSITY AND THE UNDERCOMMONS with Stefano Harney (Michael Pelias and Peter Bratsis discuss the state of academia with Stefano Harney.  (Video)

Stefano Harney on Speculative Practice in Theory (Youtube)

Stefano Harney on Study (Youtube)

Stefano Harney on Statistical to Logistic Populations (Youtube)

Stefano Harney on Governance (Youtube)

Maps

• Watson Lake, Yukon Google Maps

• York University on Anthapaskan LanguagesYukon Native Language Center (Mentioned by Meek)
  Has links on Kaska, including a read-along storybook
• University of British Columbia's Kaska language website
  Has audio and video of Kaska elders
  

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0054.xml

https://akhistory.lpsd.com/alaskas-cultures/table-of-contents

http://www.native-languages.org/famath.htm

http://www.native-languages.org/kaska.htm

Indian Boarding Schools in Canada and the United States

Interactive Map of Boarding Schools in CA and the US.
National Native American Indian Boarding School Healing Coalition.
Their description: The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) was incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit in June 2012 under the laws of the Navajo Nation. We were formed after a national symposium in 2011. Leaders from the U.S. and Canada came together to discuss the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the need for such a process in the U.S.

Collins, Cary. "Indian Boarding Schools," Oregon Encyclopedia.

Pember, Mary. "Canada, US, differ on Boarding Schools," Indian Country Today, 2021.

Mon Nov 20 Intersectionality and Spillers' Legacy

• Spillers, Hortense. Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book. Diacritics , Summer, 1987, Vol. 17, No. 2, Culture and Countermemory: The "American" Connection (Summer, 1987), pp. 64-81. (ereserve).
• "Whatcha Gonna Do?": Revisiting "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book": A Conversation with Hortense Spillers, Saidiya Hartman, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Shelly Eversley, & Jennifer L. Morgan. Women's Studies Quarterly , Spring - Summer, 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1/2, The Sexual Body (Spring - Summer, 2007), pp. 299-309. (ereserve).
• OPTIONAL: Zimman, Lal. Language, Gender, Race, and Sexuality: Intersectional Perspectives. A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, First Edition. Edited by Alessandro Duranti, Rachel George, and Robin Conley Riner, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2023. (15 pp). (ebook/ereserve)

Prep for Wed Workshop: Post to Moodle discussion forum: questions for the class about how to do your final project

Wed Nov 22 Workshop in class: what story? what analysis?

• Revisit your proposal and previous blog posts and revise. Come up with some talking points and/or a description of a key interaction or context to present: Consider what story are you telling about this performance context? What are the stakes of these interaction/events? For whom? For your analysis, what theorists/ ethnographers inspired you, how?

The Legacies of Hortense Spillers

Isabell Dahms, 'Always trouble: Gender before and after Gender Trouble', Radical Philosophy 209, Winter 2020, pp. 41–54. (pdf)
The ontological status of gender, as defined by Butler, is also brought into question in Hortense Spillers’s and Saidiya Hartman’s accounts of how race operates to undo gender. Spillers and Hartman complicate Butler’s notion of the normativity and performativity of gender by questioning the types of histories and range of performances that are deemed normative in the constitution of gender categories.

Montero, Roberto. "Love in the Flesh, Toni Morrison and Hortense Spillers 30 years after Beloved and Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe," 2018.

Massie, Victoria. Spillers's baby, anthropology's maybe: A postgenomic reckoningFeminist Anthropology. Volume 3, Issue 1 p. 137-150, 2021.

Pinto, Samantha. "Black Feminist Literacies: Ungendering, Flesh, and Post-Spillers Epistemologies of Embodied and Emotional Justice." Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships 4, no. 1 (2017): 25-45. https://doi.org/10.1353/bsr.2017.0019.
This essay will think through the possibilities that Hortense Spillers has engendered in her formulation of the flesh as a modality of Black feminist literacy, and map the contours of the current resurgence of her work in Black studies and Black feminist theory. Her landmark explication of the physical and psychic terrain of Black women’s gendering has created a network of post-publication relations that map how critical emphases around Black women’s affective and embodied experiences have changed since its publication. The interpretation of the essay has shifted as Black studies, queer studies, diaspora studies, critical theory, ethnic studies, and women’s & gender studies have tackled the nuanced difficulties of pursuing social, political, emotional, and embodied justice for Black women and girls. The recent cascade of attention to Spillers’s work in “Mama’s Baby” marks, I argue, a moment of disenchantment with recognized methodologies of representational politics; Spillers seems to offer the contemporary moment both a vocabulary and a literacy that appeals to innovative, affective understandings of justice for Black women & girls, one that sees cultural production as a necessary but not totalizing terrain for justice.

Spillers, Hortense. “Interstices: A Small Drama of Words.” In Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality, edited by Carol Vance, 73-101. London: Routledge, 1984.

------------------------. Conjuring Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition, eds. Hortense J. Spillers and Marjorie Pryse (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985). With Afterword by Hortense J. Spillers.

-------------------------. Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text, ed. with intro. Hortense J. Spillers. Selected Papers from the English Institute (New York: Routledge, Chapman, and Hall; 1991).

-------------------------. (1996) All the things you could be by now if Sigmund Freud’s wife was your mother: Psychoanalysis and Race. Critical Inquiry 22

--------------------------. Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture. University of Chicago Press, Spring 2003. 

Ty, M. "The Riot of the Literal," Oxford Literary Review 42.1 (2020): 76-108. [On Spillers' "Mama's Baby,"]
https://doi.org/10.3366/olr.2020.0294

Wachter-Grene, Kirin. "“Teaching Three Copies of ‘Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe’ ”." Feminist Formations 32, no. 1 (2020): 207-215. https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2020.0017.

Alys Eve Weinbaum. "Ungendering intersectionality and reproductive justice
Returning to Hortense Spillers's “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe”." The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities. 1st Edition, 2023.
In this chapter, the author seeks to address what he regards as an instructive omission by situating Spillers as a foundational contributor to and, at once, an important critic of intersectional thinking. “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe” opens with a call to readers to recognize what Spillers labels the “American grammar” that disavows, as it advances, the process of ungendering in the Atlantic world. To underscore the salient point, for Spillers gender is neither a universal referent nor something that can be presumed as given and available for the taking by all comers. For Black women descended from the captive female who was forced to reproduce her own kinlessness and her dispossession as mother, Spillers suggests that the radical gesture that is required in and for a more liberated future is related but distinct. In an uncanny convergence, the aforementioned foremother of the movement for reproductive justice, Loretta Ross, suggests that parallel moves ought to be made in its pursuit.

Gender/sex/sexuality and Performativity: early debates

Bordo, Susan. "Postmodern Subjects, postmodern bodies, postmodern resistance,"Unbearable Weight, 1993.
Important early critique of Butlerian performativity as resistance.

Butler, Judith. 1990. [Read first] "Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions," and "Conclusion: From Parody to Politics," pp. 163-190, [Read second] Preface (1999), pp vii-xxvi. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 10th anniversary edition, London: Routledge, 1999.

Butler, Judith. Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex, 1993.

-----------------. Excitable Speech: a Politics of the Performative, 1997.

Case, Sue-Ellen, ed. Cruising the performative : interventions into the representation of ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality / edited by Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, and Susan Leigh Foster PublicationBloomington : Indiana University Press, c1995

---------------------. Performing feminisms : feminist critical theory and theatre / edited by Sue-Ellen Case Publication Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1990

---------------------. Split britches : lesbian practice/feminist performance / edited by Sue-Ellen Case PublicationLondon ; New York : Routledge, 1996

Goffman, Erving. 1976. "Gender Display" and "Gender Commercials," in Gender Advertisements. New York: Harper and Row.

Hall, Kira. "Performativity," in Duranti, Alessandro, ed. Key Terms in Language and Culture. Blackwell, 2001. (bookstore and book reserve)

Livia, Anna and Kira Hall. ‘It’s a girl!’: Bringing performativity back to linguistics.” In A. Livia and K. Hall (eds.), Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3-18, 1997. (book store and book reserve, 5 copies)
A somewhat confused attempt to reclaim performativity theory for a linguistic anthropological approach to queer theory.

Morris, Rosalind C. "All Made Up: Performance Theory and the New Anthropology of Sex and Gender," Annual Review of Anthropology 1995.24:567-92. (JSTOR).

Ochs, Elinor. "Indexing Gender," in Duranti, Alessandro and Charles Goodwin, eds. Rethinking context : language as an interactive phenomenon, Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991. (ereserve).
ling. anth. alternative to Butlerian gender performativity.

Parker, Andrew and Eve Sedgewick. "Introduction: Performativity and Performance," in Parker and Sedgewick, eds. Performativity and Performance, NY: Routledge, 1995.

Weston, Kath. 1993. "Do Clothes Make the Woman? Gender, Performance Theory, and Lesbian Eroticism," reprinted in Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age, New York: Routledge, 2002.
Important early critique of Butlerian performativity as resistance.

Worthen, W.B. "Drama, Performativity and Performance," PMLA, Oct 1998, Vol 113, Number 5. (see me).

Hortense Spillers (1944-)

• Spillers at Vanderbilt
• "the Scholarly Journey of Hortense Spillers," Brandeis Now, 2019
• "Collection from Renowned Black Feminist Theorist Generating Excitement at Brown", 2020
  In 2020, Spillers donated her personal papers to Brown University's Feminist Theory Archive. The announcement of the donation went viral before the papers had even arrived.
• Llyod, Vincent. "Hortense Spillers," Political Theology Network, 2022.
• True Leap Press. Hortense Spillers Bibliography (2017).
• Leonard, Keith D., and Hortense Spillers. “First Questions: The Mission of Africana Studies: An Interview with Hortense Spillers.” Callaloo 30, no. 4 (2007): 1054–68.

The Moynihan Report (1965) [famously critiqued by Spillers in "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe"]

• Full text (Blackpast.org)
• Daniel Geary. "The Moynihan Report: an Annotated Edition: A historian unpacks The Negro Family: The Case for National Action on its 50th anniversary.," The Atlantic, 2015.

Judith Butler (1956-)

• "The Professor of Parody," 1999
  University of Chicago Law School professor Martha Nussbaum's early feminist critique of Butler's gender theory in the early 90s.

• Berkeley report and interview with Butler
• Observer.com report on controversy and video of Butler speech at Tufts
• Wall St Journal critique of Butler's politics critical of Israel
  
  
• "What's Wrong with 'All Lives Matter'?" New York Times op-ed by Yancy and Butler, 2015
• The Cut cover story: Judith Butler (2016)

Hortense Spillers in Video and Film

Dreams are Colder than Death. Arthur Jafa, 2014. [Features the voices of Black scholars like Hortense Spillers, whose voice opens the film, and 5:02 she tells the story of her sister's amputated leg as a way to explain her notions of "flesh" as defined in Mama's Baby; Fred Moten and Saidiyaa Hartman and Kara Walker are also featured] **Content notes: some graphic still photos of tortured bodies of the enslaved. 
From the voiceover: 50 years after Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech we asked a collective of African-American filmmakers to give us a view as to where things stand with regards to the goals and ambitions of the civil rights...in the process the filmmakers discover an even more fundamental set of questions: what is the concept of Blackness? where did it come from and what does it mean for people of color living in America today?

The Idea of Black Culture (Video lecture based on her 2008 article/book with the same title) University of Waterloo English Department, Winfried Siemerling’s “Contemporary Critical Theory” class, March 19, 2013

Shades of Intimacy: What the Eighteenth Century Teaches Us. Spillers' keynote lecture for "The Flesh of the Matter: A Hortense Spillers Symposium," March 18, 2016 at Cornell University. Her lecture was followed by a day of symposium panels.

Shades of Intimacy: Women in the Time of Revolution. Spillers' lecture at Barnard, introduced by Tina Campt, 2017.

Left of Black with Hortense Spiller and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, 2017. Discussing Gumbs' book Spill: Black Feminist Fugitivity in Conversation and Performance.

Afro-Pessimism and its Others. Spillers' distinguished lecture at the New School, NYC, 2021

Conversation Between Hortense Spillers and Margo Crawford, Pembroke Center, Brown University, 2022.

Performing Whiteness and Gender/Sexuality: Jean Killbourne's Killing Us Softly and other Critical Advertising Studies Film Series
This series of films developed over the past 25 years in response to Jean Kilbourne's spearhead 1979 film critiquing advertising images of women and femininity. Kilbourne herself has collaborated in various updating sequels, and she has several books as well. Reed owns:

• Killing Us Softly. Jean Kilbourne, 1979.
• Still Killing us Softly: advertising's image of women / a film by Jean Kilbourne and Cambridge Documentary Films ; producer & director, Margaret Lazarus
  Publication Cambridge, Mass. : Cambridge Documentary Films, c1987
• Killing us Softly 3: advertising's image of women / Media Education Foundation
  Publication Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2000
• The Strength to Resist: Beyond Killing Us Softly, 2000 (30 min)
  Features Gloria Steinem and "Ask Amy" feminist writer Amy Richards, co-author of the book The Feminist Manifesta.
• Killing us softly 4 : advertising's image of women. Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2010
• Jean Killbourne's website with trailers for her other films on advertising, gender, sexuality and violence

Mon Nov 27

• Wirtz, Kristina. Ch. 1 "Semiotics of Race and History," in Performing Afro-Cuba : image, voice, spectacle in the making of race and history. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014. (44 pp). (ereserve/ebook)

Wed Nov 29

• Wirtz, Kristina. Ch. 5 "Pride: Singing Black History in the Carabalí Cabildos," Performing Afro-Cuba : image, voice, spectacle in the making of race and history. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014. (30 pp). (ereserve/ebook)

Mon Dec 4 Reflections: Presentations/Final Workshop

Prepare for a brief (5-7 min), informal presentation about your final project. Have some talking points to walk us through what you're planning to do. For this, go back to the project guidelines, and consider some of the key questions we talked about in our workshop before break:

1. What "worlds", including what social persons are being made/remade/unmade in this context? Go back to Kondo, who defines "world-making" (vs performativity as often focused on identity only)
2.  What story will you tell about that? why does this matter?
3.  How will you evidence it (in linguistic and nonverbal practices)?
4.  Can you discover any ideologies of language/race/gender/personhood operating?
5.  What contexts, histories, genres, etc., are important?
6.  What social types/voices are important?
7.  What politics/dynamics of this are evident?
8.  Recall Kondo or Hartman: is there reparative creativity or redress here? how? repair/redress from what?

Come with a few answers to those questions and a key question you want to ask the class.

Final ethnographic/analytic essay due Wednesday, Dec 13, midnight, Word doc uploaded to Moodle (link at the top): your essay with a transcript of key scene(s), and any photo/video/audio inserted and captioned. You can include a full transcript as an appendix, along with a key to the diacritics you used.