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Linguistics in Pursuit of Justice (Hardcover)
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Linguistics in Pursuit of Justice (Hardcover)
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As a black child growing up in inner-city neighborhoods in
Philadelphia and Los Angeles, John Baugh witnessed racial
discrimination at a young age and began to notice correlations
between language and race. While attending college he worked at a
Laundromat serving African Americans who were often subjected to
mistreatment by the police. His observations piqued his curiosity
about the ways that linguistic diversity might be related to the
burgeoning Civil Rights movement for racial equality in America.
Baugh pursued these ideas whilst traveling internationally only to
discover alternative forms of linguistic discrimination in Europe,
Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean and South America. He coined
the phrase 'linguistic profiling' based on experimental studies of
housing discrimination, and expanded upon those findings to promote
equity in education, employment, medicine and the law. This book is
the product of the culmination of these studies, devoted to the
advancement of equality and justice globally.
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