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White affects and sociolinguistic activism
This year, undergraduates in my class âLanguage, race, and ethnicityâ carried out collaborative sociolinguistic activism projects addressing a range of issues in our community, such as racist street signs and California's ban on diacritics in personal names on official documents. Despite my and my teaching assistantsâ explicit instructions that the projects should aim to effect some tangible changeâthe replacement of the street signs, the legalization of diacriticsâmany students focused instead on the more amorphous goal of âraising awarenessâ of these issues on our campus and in the local community. As we explained, while raising the public profile of a social injustice is a necessary step toward changing it, this act alone cannot bring about change
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