From Marginality to Mattering: Linguistic Practices, Pedagogies and Diversities at a Community-Serving Senior College

Hannah Göppert; Andrea Springirth

doi:10.5565/rev/jtl3.678

From Marginality to Mattering: Linguistic Practices, Pedagogies and Diversities at a Community-Serving Senior College

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Hannah Göppert Humboldt University
Andrea Springirth City University of New York

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La diversificació cultural d'universitats dirigides en els seus orígens a les necessitats d'una minoria provoca preguntes sobre la inclusió de cada individu mentre que es mantinguin els avenços aconseguits per a la població original. Aquest article investiga la intersecció de la diversificació lingüística i racial a Medgar Evers College de la Universitat de la Ciutat de Nova York (CUNY). Històricament connectat al Black Campus Movement, la institució està compromesa amb ser un agent de la transformació social a la comunitat de Brooklyn. Per comprendre les diferents perspectives sobre llengua i diversitat, entrevistem alguns representants dels principals grups de la universitat. Sobre la diversificació lingüística es va mostrar una tensió entre la convicció que existeix un anglès normatiu o 'ideal' i el reconeixement de la variació lingüística. Pel que fa al clima racial i ètnic, es va manifestar una percepció d'exclusió entre estudiants de color que no s'identificaven com negres. Conceptes existents així com les bones actituds i pràctiques entre els participants prometen camins que podrien donar suport a tots. Suggerim que educadors, administradors i empleats en Medgar Evers han de fomentar el diàleg entre estudiants diversos, tant a les aules com fora d'elles. Alhora, s'ha de mantenir l'espai segur i l'atmosfera d'empoderament creat per als estudiants negres. També recomanem més conceptualització teòrica sobre la diversificació d'institucions no-predominantment blancs.

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Historically black colleges and universities, campus diversification, linguistic ideologies, racial/ethnic climate, inclusion

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Hannah Göppert, Humboldt University

Hannah Göppert is a visiting student at the Sociology Department of CUNY Graduate Center, New York City. She is based at Humboldt University in Berlin, where she is pursuing a MA in Social Sciences and investigating the teaching of German as a second language to refugees and migrants. She also spent six months at the Political Science Department of Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, during her undergraduate. Her research interests include citizenship & migration, race/ethnicity as well as urban and educational inequality.

Andrea Springirth, City University of New York

Andrea Springirth is a Master’s student in the M.A. in Liberal Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center and has had the fortunate opportunity of conducting the majority of her coursework over the past two years in the Anthropology Department. She has a particular interest in discourse and social justice movements, and is currently investigating how language is used to normalize certain ideas about advocacy within the nonhuman animal rights movement. Andrea holds a B.A. in Romance Languages from the University of Maryland, College Park. When not researching or writing for school, she is rehabilitating wildlife and volunteering at local animal sanctuaries.

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