Dr. Aris M. Clemons, Assistant Professor, UT Knoxville, will present the Educational Linguistics Colloquium titled, "They Spanish, they ain't Black:" Raciolinguistic Erasures of Black Latinidades in School Spaces

Dr. Aris M. Clemons, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, UT Knoxville, will present the Educational Linguistics Colloquium titled, "They Spanish, they ain't Black:" Raciolinguistic Erasures of Black Latinidades in School Spaces. Having completed her doctoral degree in the Spanish and Portuguese Department and the Mexican American and Latina/o Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin, her work spans the fields of linguistics, education, anthropology, and Black and Latinx studies in order to interrogate the intersections of language, race, and identity. Originally from (all over) the Bay Area in California, she has been steeped in the traditions of anti-racist pedagogies and has dedicated herself to developing and sustaining these practices in her own research and teaching. As such, her research agenda is rooted in social change through an examination of the ways that what appears to be common knowledge is often constructed and ideologically maintained by various social institutions. Overarchingly, Aris questions the linguistic mechanisms—repetitions, stance taking, tropicalizations, etc.—responsible for the (re)construction and maintenance of racializing and marginalizing ideologies.