Professor suspected of being a terrorist because of a math equation

A woman thinks that an Ivy League professor is a terrorist due to her inability to understand what he's writing (among other things). Her standard language ideology influenced her to believe that because he didn't seem to be writing in English, this could only be an indication that he was foreign and, ultimately in her eyes, a terrorist. [Published on 05-07-2016]

Posted by Camryn Shiroma on March 22, 2018

Tags:
Standard Language Ideology;
Indexicality;
Race,Ethnicity;
Stigma

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