Arthur K Spears
Biographic Data
| ID | 539101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur K Spears |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur K |
| FAMILY NAME | Spears |
| SIGNATURE | SPEARS A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | City College of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8604-8683 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction
The introduction to this special issue frames White supremacy as a central concern within linguistic anthropology, both as a focus of analysis and as a power structure that has profoundly shaped the field's logics and demographics. We emphasize how carefully attending to language, discourse, and signs can productively illuminate White supremacy's slippery logics, organizing principles, dynamic infrastructures, and diverse practices. Centering the…
White Supremacy and Antiblackness
Our goal in understanding white supremacy should be theory building, viewed as instrumental in providing explanation and prediction as a foundation for activism. As humanists and social scientists, and more particularly as anthropologists and linguistic anthropologists, we should take to heart not only anthropology's mandate to be holistic, comparative, and historical but also the tradition of anthropological theorizing. Lived experience is the s…
Racism, Colorism, and Language within Their Macro Contexts
This chapter contends that scholars of language and race have insufficiently attended to the constraints imposed by a pentad of forces that (re)produce racialized hierarchies. These macro-forces include the global capitalist system, the nation-state, political economic stratification, and other forms of socioeconomic inequality. It argues that racism in the United States emerges from the social inequality imposed by global capitalism and the hege…
Unstressedbeen
Unstressed bin is the African American English (AAE) verbal form occurring in sentences such as I bin paid that bill last week ‘I paid that bill last week’. Contrary to what has been claimed in much of the literature, unstressed bin does exist in the grammars of some contemporary AAE varieties. Unstressed bin occurs in many clausal environments where it can be mistaken for stressed bin, which is not always stressed, and the past participle been, …
Languages and Speakers
The many connections between Native Americans and African Americans throughout US history provide a reason for discussing these peoples and their languages together. The similarities in their experiences in North America are primarily the product of US white supremacist racism, which, to take one example, has created black ghettoes and Native American reservations. One language, with many regional and social varieties, unites African Americans, w…
Transforming Anthropology
English and the African Diaspora
English in Africa After the Cold War. Alamin M. Mazrui. Black Linguistics: Language, Society, and Politics in Africa and the Americas. Sinfree Makoni, Geneva Smitherman, Arnetha F. Ball, Arthur K. Spears (Eds.)
Response to Kirk Hazen's Review of Sonja L. Lanehart's Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English
Research Article| May 01 2004 RESPONSE TO KIRK HAZEN'S REVIEW OF SONJA L. LANEHART'S SOCIOCULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH GENEVA SMITHERMAN; GENEVA SMITHERMAN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google ARTHUR K. SPEARS ARTHUR K. SPEARS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2004) 79 (2): 201–207. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-79-2-201 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
Black linguistics
"Written exclusively by Black scholars on behalf of, and in collaboration with local communities, the book looks at the commonalities and differences among Black speech communities in Africa and the Diaspora. Topics include: * the OJ Simpson trial * language issues in Southern Africa and Francophone West Africa * the language of Hip Hop * the language of the Rastafaria in Jamaica With a foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, this is essential reading for…
Contested Talk
The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles
The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles
Destined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised and elaborated papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in addition to commissioned papers from leading scholars in the field. As a group, the papers undertake this reassessment through a reevaluation of pidgin/creole term…
The structure and status of pidgins and creoles
Grammar, Race and Ideology
In Memoriam
Culture Critique and Colorstruction
Reassessing the status of Black English (Review article)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Sociolinguistics of Language
Sociolinguistics of Language: Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Volume II. Ralph Fasold. Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1990. 342 pp. $52.95 (doth), $19.95 (paper
Association of Black Anthropologists
Language Variation in Time and Space Revisited
Association of Black Anthropologists
Association of Black Anthropoligists
Association of Black Anthropologist
Association Of Black Anthropologists
Are Black and White Vernaculars Diverging? Papers from the NWAVE XIV Panel Discussion
Ralph W. Fasold, William Labov, Fay Boyd Vaughn-Cooke, Guy Bailey, Walt Wolfram, Arthur K. Spears, John Rickford, Are Black and White Vernaculars Diverging? Papers from the NWAVE XIV Panel Discussion, American Speech, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Spring, 1987), pp. 3-80
Are Black and White Vernaculars Diverging? Papers from the NWAVE XIV Panel Discussion
Ralph W. Fasold, William Labov, Fay Boyd Vaughn-Cooke, Guy Bailey, Walt Wolfram, Arthur K. Spears, John Rickford, Are Black and White Vernaculars Diverging? Papers from the NWAVE XIV Panel Discussion, American Speech, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Spring, 1987), pp. 3-80
Introduction
The introduction to this special issue frames White supremacy as a central concern within linguistic anthropology, both as a focus of analysis and as a power structure that has profoundly shaped the field's logics and demographics. We emphasize how carefully attending to language, discourse, and signs can productively illuminate White supremacy's slippery logics, organizing principles, dynamic infrastructures, and diverse practices. Centering the…
The Black English Semi-Auxiliary Come
Black English has, in addition to the motion verb come, a come which expresses only speaker indignation. To some extent it shares grammatical properties with auxiliary verbs. Typically, it occurs in utterances that can be taken as identical to ones occurring in non-Black dialects; and it is apparently for this reason that it has remained undetected. The existence of this come indicates that an even greater difference exists between Black and Whit…
White Supremacy and Antiblackness
Our goal in understanding white supremacy should be theory building, viewed as instrumental in providing explanation and prediction as a foundation for activism. As humanists and social scientists, and more particularly as anthropologists and linguistic anthropologists, we should take to heart not only anthropology's mandate to be holistic, comparative, and historical but also the tradition of anthropological theorizing. Lived experience is the s…
Institutionalized Racism and the Education of Blacks
Research into the causes of the unsatifactory educational performance of many black students has focused on linguistic and cultural differences of black students to the neglect of institutionalized racism, which must be recognized as the major factor affecting black academic achievement. Given the nature of institutionalized racism, it becomes clear that the actual academic accomplishment of black students must not be evaluated by the same criter…
Unstressedbeen
Unstressed bin is the African American English (AAE) verbal form occurring in sentences such as I bin paid that bill last week ‘I paid that bill last week’. Contrary to what has been claimed in much of the literature, unstressed bin does exist in the grammars of some contemporary AAE varieties. Unstressed bin occurs in many clausal environments where it can be mistaken for stressed bin, which is not always stressed, and the past participle been, …
Reassessing the status of Black English (Review article)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Language Variation in Time and Space Revisited
The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles
Institutionalized Racism and the Education of Blacks
Research into the causes of the unsatifactory educational performance of many black students has focused on linguistic and cultural differences of black students to the neglect of institutionalized racism, which must be recognized as the major factor affecting black academic achievement. Given the nature of institutionalized racism, it becomes clear that the actual academic accomplishment of black students must not be evaluated by the same criter…
The Black English Semi-Auxiliary Come
Black English has, in addition to the motion verb come, a come which expresses only speaker indignation. To some extent it shares grammatical properties with auxiliary verbs. Typically, it occurs in utterances that can be taken as identical to ones occurring in non-Black dialects; and it is apparently for this reason that it has remained undetected. The existence of this come indicates that an even greater difference exists between Black and Whit…
Variación y significado
Are Black and White Vernaculars Diverging? Papers from the NWAVE XIV Panel Discussion
Ralph W. Fasold, William Labov, Fay Boyd Vaughn-Cooke, Guy Bailey, Walt Wolfram, Arthur K. Spears, John Rickford, Are Black and White Vernaculars Diverging? Papers from the NWAVE XIV Panel Discussion, American Speech, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Spring, 1987), pp. 3-80
Association of Black Anthropoligists
Association of Black Anthropologist
Association Of Black Anthropologists
Language Variation in Time and Space Revisited
Association of Black Anthropologists
Culture Critique and Colorstruction
Reassessing the status of Black English (Review article)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Sociolinguistics of Language
Sociolinguistics of Language: Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Volume II. Ralph Fasold. Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1990. 342 pp. $52.95 (doth), $19.95 (paper
Association of Black Anthropologists
In Memoriam
The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles
Destined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised and elaborated papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in addition to commissioned papers from leading scholars in the field. As a group, the papers undertake this reassessment through a reevaluation of pidgin/creole term…
The structure and status of pidgins and creoles
Grammar, Race and Ideology
The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles
Contested Talk
Black linguistics
"Written exclusively by Black scholars on behalf of, and in collaboration with local communities, the book looks at the commonalities and differences among Black speech communities in Africa and the Diaspora. Topics include: * the OJ Simpson trial * language issues in Southern Africa and Francophone West Africa * the language of Hip Hop * the language of the Rastafaria in Jamaica With a foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, this is essential reading for…
Response to Kirk Hazen's Review of Sonja L. Lanehart's Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English
Research Article| May 01 2004 RESPONSE TO KIRK HAZEN'S REVIEW OF SONJA L. LANEHART'S SOCIOCULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH GENEVA SMITHERMAN; GENEVA SMITHERMAN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google ARTHUR K. SPEARS ARTHUR K. SPEARS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2004) 79 (2): 201–207. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-79-2-201 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
English and the African Diaspora
English in Africa After the Cold War. Alamin M. Mazrui. Black Linguistics: Language, Society, and Politics in Africa and the Americas. Sinfree Makoni, Geneva Smitherman, Arnetha F. Ball, Arthur K. Spears (Eds.)
Languages and Speakers
The many connections between Native Americans and African Americans throughout US history provide a reason for discussing these peoples and their languages together. The similarities in their experiences in North America are primarily the product of US white supremacist racism, which, to take one example, has created black ghettoes and Native American reservations. One language, with many regional and social varieties, unites African Americans, w…
Transforming Anthropology
Unstressedbeen
Unstressed bin is the African American English (AAE) verbal form occurring in sentences such as I bin paid that bill last week ‘I paid that bill last week’. Contrary to what has been claimed in much of the literature, unstressed bin does exist in the grammars of some contemporary AAE varieties. Unstressed bin occurs in many clausal environments where it can be mistaken for stressed bin, which is not always stressed, and the past participle been, …
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