On Friday, March 28 from 10:30-11:45, Dr. April Baker-Bell will give a talk entitled "Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy". In this talk, Dr. April Baker-Bell will discuss how anti-Black linguistic racism and white linguistic supremacy get normalized in teacher attitudes, curriculum and instruction, pedagogical approaches, disciplinary discourses, and research, and she will discuss the impact these decisions have on Black students’ language education and their linguistic, racial, and intellectual identities. Dr. Baker-Bell will introduce a new way forward through Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy, a pedagogical approach that intentionally and unapologetically places Black Language at the center to critically interrogate white linguistic hegemony and anti-Black linguistic racism.
This event is sponsored by the Writing Across the Curriculum Program, the University Writing Center, the Rhetoric & Writing Studies Program, and the University Lecture Forum Series. The event open to the entire university community, but registration is required. Please register here.
Dr. Baker-Bell's campus visit will be followed by a reading group focused on her book of the same title. Please register here if you would like to participate in this reading group during the Fall 2025 semester.
