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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Race provides an up-to-date overview of language and race from a modern global perspective. Challenging the concept of race that has been defined by global North scholarship, this book interrogates these academic conventions and encourages the reader to look beyond these narrow viewpoints of language and race. Taking a decolonizing approach, this Handbook includes contributions from academics from Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia and the Pacific as well as those based in Europe and North America with the aim of deconstructing the center of power into a direction where not only marginalized people are given a voice but also where marginalized scholars can be heard. Chapters in the volume review the state of the art of the study of language and race, capture the prevailing realities of race as experienced in the localities which the authors represent, critique the prevailing conceptualization to advance debate, and provide an account of specific ethnographic case studies. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Race is essential reading for all students and academics who want to broaden their understanding of this crucial topic.

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Author:   Sinfree Makoni (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) ,  Bassey E. Antia ,  Stephanie Rudwick
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032146058

ISBN 10:   1032146052
Pages:   524
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors Introduction Section 1: Conceptual issues and their political predicates 1. Nick Riemer: Racism and ideology in linguistics 2. Eduardo Henrique Diniz de Figueiredo, Juliana Zeggio Martinez & Clarissa Menezes Jordão: The concept of whiteness in Applied Linguistics research within Brazil 3. Romina Istratii: The Discourse of ‘Whiteness’ and the Risk of Re-colonising through Decolonising 4. Ọbádélé Kambon: GandhiMustFall,#AugustusMustFall, Temporal Reality, Ma’at and srwḏ tꜢ n Kmt ‘Restoring the Land of Black People’ 5. Joshua Babcock & Jay Ke-Schutte: Against Methodological Monolingualism: “Language,” “Race,” and Western-Intellectual Cultures of Monoglot Standardization 6. Nick Faraclas, Ian Hancock in conversation with Sinfree Makoni & Bassey E. Antia: Rethinking boundaries and the trans-national Romani experience 7. Uju Anya in conversation with the African Studies Global Virtual Forum: Blackness: multiple and scalable? Section 2: Encounters and encountering 8. Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta: Undisciplined research at the margins. (Non)-naming people’s identities in Swedish spaces 9. Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo & Rachel Muchira: On Being Black: The Linguistic Conceptualisation of Colourisms in English and German 10. Margaret Amaka Ohia-Nowak: From “Murzyn” and “Mulat” to “Czarny”. Naming Black People in Poland 11. Ajohche N. Awungjia: Race, Discourse and Friendship 12. Miché Thompson: Racialised relations: constructing the “other” through the discourse of prejudice in China Town in Cape Town South Africa 13. Kwesi Kwaa Prah in conversation with Bassey E. Antia & Sinfree Makoni: Conversations on seven decades of peripatetic activism Section 3: Contestations within and beyond 14. Ying-Ying Tan: Race(ing) accents in Singapore 15. Cristine Gorski Severo & Sinfree Makoni: African heritage in Brazil 16. Gavin Furukawa & Mie Hiramoto: Language, race and nationalism: Views from East Asia 17. Lara-Stephanie Krause-Alzaidi & Agnes Young: To Hold or not to Hold a Placard: Transracialisation and White Grappling at Black Lives Matter Protests in Germany 18. Saffo Papantonopoulou: Anal Temporalities: Racialisation, Homosex, and the Legacy of Nation-Building in the Balkans 19. Nathan Oyori Ogechi: Relics of imperialism? Portrayal of ethnic and racial identities through code choice in multicultural Kenya 20. John Baugh in conversation with Bassey E. Antia: Linguistic Profiling Section 4: Education and media 21. Afua Yeboah: Belonging and Not Belonging: A Personal Narrative 22. Cristine Gorski Severo and Ezra Alberto Chambal Nhampoca: Language ideologies and racialization in Mozambique: from the colonial era to contemporary bilingual education 23. Pinky Makoe & Carolyn McKinney: Race and coloniality of language policy in education 24. Sewoenam Chachu: A comparative content analysis of cultural content in textbooks for teaching French in Ghana and Togo 25. Tamah Sherman & Jiří Homoláč: Asian or Vietnamese? The intersection of racial, ethnic and national categorization in discourses of young Vietnamese in the Czech Republic 26. Sisanda Nkoala: The Intersection of Race and Gender in Online Violence Against South African Female Journalists 27. Busi Makoni in conversation with Bassey E. Antia: The woman in the academy as a black person, student, faculty and researcher 28. Arthur Spears in conversation with Bassey E. Antia and Sinfree Makoni: Language and race in careers in the academy Index

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Sinfree Makoni, Pennsylvania State University, USA. He has recently co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Language and the Global South/s (Routledge). Bassey E. Antia, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has recently co-edited (with Sinfree Makoni) Southernizing Sociolinguistics: Colonialism, Racism, and Patriarchy in Language in the Global South (Routledge). Stephanie Rudwick, Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Science and University of Hradec Kralove, Czechia. She has recently published The Ambiguity of English as a Lingua Franca: Politics of Language and Race in South Africa (Routledge).

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