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Talking/Not Talking about Race: The Enregisterments of Culture in Higher Education Discourses
Author(s) -
Urciuoli Bonnie
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of linguistic anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.463
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1548-1395
pISSN - 1055-1360
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2009.01017.x
Subject(s) - indexicality , markedness , sociology , multiculturalism , framing (construction) , race (biology) , gender studies , ethnic group , subjectivity , linguistics , anthropology , pedagogy , history , archaeology , epistemology , philosophy
In higher education “diversity” discourses , culture routinely stands in for race, but its use is unevenly enregistered. Examination of three web pages at one college shows contrasting entextualizations of culture: in promotional discourse , culture is loosely associated with diversity; in describing student organizations , culture is variously associated with race, ethnicity, nationality, language, and gender; for multicultural programs , culture is most tightly associated with racial markedness . Culture is most complexly enregistered in spoken discourse among students of color, indexing racial markedness experienced as subjectivity, family, class, and location. Framing all these usages is a neoliberalization of racial markedness, as in the idea of “educating the community.” [enregisterment, indexicality, higher education, culture, diversity]