@article{cccb999090e648b3b9f5d23847f8636c,
title = "Introduction: Language and White Supremacy",
abstract = "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{\textquoteright}s logics and demographics. We emphasize how carefully attending to language, discourse, and signs can productively illuminate White supremacy{\textquoteright}s slippery logics, organizing principles, dynamic infrastructures, and diverse practices. Centering the role of White supremacy in constituting modern sign relations can contribute significantly to linguistic anthropologists{\textquoteright} efforts toward understanding historical and contemporary power structures that organize the dynamic yet systematic interplay between language and context. We hope that this special issue builds constructively on longstanding and more recent linguistic anthropological work that has led us to reconsider the fundamental relationship between language, race, and culture while also pushing our field in important new directions by reconsidering the fundamental relationship between language and racism as a strategy for understanding and contributing to efforts toward combating White supremacy.",
keywords = "anti-Blackness, White supremacy, racism, language",
author = "Smalls, {Krystal A.} and Spears, {Arthur K.} and Jonathan Rosa",
note = "Funding Information: The editors of this special issue would like to thank colleagues who submitted their scholarship for consideration as part of this project, as well as reviewers whose generosity was essential to this effort. We are grateful to contributors for their patience throughout the lengthy publication process, particularly during the pandemic. Finally, we would like to thank Chaise LaDousa and Sonia Das for working with our guest editorial team and supporting us through every stage of the production of this special issue. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 American Anthropological Association",
year = "2021",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1111/jola.12329",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "31",
pages = "152--156",
journal = "Journal of Linguistic Anthropology",
issn = "1055-1360",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "2",
}