Program

10:00 – 10:30      Welcome and Opening Remarks

Nicholas Harkness, Department of Anthropology
Steven Caton, Department of Anthropology

10:30 – 12:00

Strategies of Lexical Excavation: Making Covertly Racist Language Hearable
Elaine Chun, University of South Carolina

Language Ideologies and the Racialization of Native Americans:
Covert Linguistic Racism and Settler-colonial Indexical Orders
Paul Kroskrity, University of California Los Angeles

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:30

Real Black: Emphatically Black Signs and Fugitive Humanity in Digital Space
Krystal Smalls, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Race, Image, Empire: Poetic Structures of Philippine Differentiation
Angela Reyes, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

2:30 – 2:45 Coffee Break

2:45 – 4:15

American Apprehensions: A Semiotics of Racial and Linguistic Profiling
Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University

Racialization as Metasemiotic Theory
Adrienne Lo, University of Waterloo

4:15 – 4:45      Closing Remarks

Marcyliena Morgan, Department of African and African American Studies

Reception