The Racialized Nature of Academic Language

Sultan Turkan is Associate Professor in Bilingual Education at Queens University, Belfast, UK. Jamie L. Schissel is Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.

List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Foreword, Ofelia Garca (City University of New York, USA) Introduction, Sultan Turkan (Queens University Belfast, UK) and Jamie L. Schissel (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA) Part I: Entanglements of Race and Academic Language: Theoretical Unpacking 1. Academic Language: A Monolingual Social Construction for Language in Academic Contexts that Has No Place in Academic Contexts, Christian Faltis (Texas A&M International University, USA) 2. Enregistering Plural Academic Languages: Possibilities for Diversifying Academic Writing and Publishing, Suresh Canagarajah (Penn State University, USA) 3. The Eugenicists Best Friend: Academic Language and the Promise of Escape from Racialization, JPB Gerald (CUNY Hunter College, USA) Part II: Documenting the Current and Past Practices 4. Unpacking Enregistered Whiteness in Academic Language through Teacher Reflections on Local Language Policy, Lillian Ardell (Language Matters, LLC), Karis Jones (SUNY Empire State University, USA) and Dorsa Fahami (Columbia University, USA) 5. The Effect of Academic Language in ELA and Black Students Disenfranchisement: A Phenomenology Study, Monisha Atkinson and Donna DeGennaro (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA) 6. Academic Language for Bilingual Programs: A Focus on L1 Standards, Mariana Alvayero Ricklefs (Northern Illinois University, USA) 7. My English is not Good: How Raciolinguistic Microaggressions Contribute to Language Minoritization, Ben Calman (McGill University, Canada) 8. From Enregisterment to Extraction: English for Academic Purposes in Settler-Colonial Postsecondary Education, Dmitri Detwyler (University of British Columbia, Canada) 9. Academic Language in Workspaces: If a spot of Blood Gets on the Chicken, Other Chickens Will Mistake It For Feed, Sultan Turkan (Queens University Belfast, UK) Part III: Detangling the knots 10. Translanguaging as Manoeuvre: Resisting the Hegemony of English Academic Language at a Historically English Medium University, Mbulungeni Madiba Stellenbosch (University Cape Town, South Africa) 11. Using an Identity Framework to Negotiate Traditional Notions of Academic Language and Writing Instruction with Resettled Youth, Melody Zoch, Amy Vetter, Beverly Faircloth and Teena Martin (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA) 12. Diversity, Inclusion, and the Balancing Act: Working in the Writing Centers as a Person of Color, Shreya Sangai (York University, Canada) Conclusion, Jamie L. Schissel (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA) Index