What Exactly is Race Got to do With Maryland?
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 · 4:30 - 5:30 PM
Online
What Exactly is Race Got to do With Maryland?
Intersecting Race, Displacement, Identity and the Pleasure of (Second) Language Learning
Tuesday, November 15, 4:30 - 5:30 PM EST
Registration by e-mal to TESOL@umbc.edu
As part of UMBC's celebration of International Education Week, the UMBC Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Graduate Program Presents:
Dr. Awad Ibrahim will be joining us to discuss the intersection of
race, identity, and language learning. He writes: "The main question I
am asking in this presentation is: How and why race plays a role in
language learning (first or second language)? To answer this question, I
am advancing three arguments. First, race works exactly like a
language. That is, race has its own grammar, syntax, morphology and
phonology. Second, indeed race is language which we speak on a daily
basis. If this is the case, third, then race is directly related to
(second) language learning. Empirically I will show how a group of Black
(second) language learners speak Blackness; that is, how Blackness
influences their language acquisition. Here we encounter the ‘language
of race,’ the discovery of their own Blackness, and the process of
becoming Black. Language learning, I conclude, is not a haphazard
process, but a purposeful and a political process."
Dr. Awad Ibrahim
is an award-winning author and a Professor at the Faculty of Education,
University of Ottawa. He is a Curriculum Theorist with special interest
in applied linguistics, cultural studies, Hip-Hop, youth and Black
popular culture, philosophy and sociology of education, social justice,
diasporic and continental African identities, and ethnography. He has
researched and published widely in these areas. He is the Air Canada
Endowed Professor in Anti-Racism.