2024/03/30 by Anne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, Kahdeidra Monét Martin +9 · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Applied linguistics #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Linguistics #Multilingual Education and Policy #Philosophy #Political science #Second Language Learning and Teaching #Sociology #Solidarity
paper · doi:10.1093/oso/9780197755259.003.0016
openalex publication_date 2024/03/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Abstract This chapter takes a Black Diasporic perspective on the decolonization of linguistics. The authors interrogate longstanding false institutional and ideological divides within linguistics and related fields while strengthening and fostering scholarly solidarity and collectivity for African, African American, Black, and Diasporic scholars. They share personal and professional insights on centering Blackness as part of decolonizing linguistics from their positionalities and intellectual histories as authors, as Black Diasporic scholars, and as white allies, as well as from recent autobiographical scholarship by prominent Black Diasporic linguists. Based on their findings, they offer recommendations for solidarity and collective action toward adopting transformative changes to expand Black individuals’ and communities’ access to linguistics, challenge the white supremacy that undergirds the discipline’s ignorance about and exclusion of the Black Diaspora, and shift ideological standards for academic and scholarly success within linguistics.