DUKE UNIVERSITY

The Linguistics Program is active in anti-racism efforts in outreach to students, faculty and collaborations with our colleagues across the Triangle at NCSU, NCCU, NC A&T, UNC-CH, and K-12 teachers and students through course work, lectures and research. We are active in educating our communities about the risks of linguistic discrimination in fragile communities. The Thurgood Marshall College Fund's Center for Advancing Opportunity (TMCF) defines fragile communities as "areas with high proportions of residents who struggle financially in their daily lives and have limited opportunities for social mobility" (2018: 2). Such communities experience, in the phrase coined by Judith Butler, precarity. One of the issues present across all of these communities is discrimination based on the fragile or precarious community's use of particular linguistic forms and dialects... The Linguistics Program at Duke is a unique interdisciplinary program offering undergraduate classes, majors and minors,..

Also known as: Linguistics Program

Primary location: Durham United States