I just published "Decolonizing Language: Unshackling “Dark” & “Black” from Metaphoric Representations of Negative Attributes" : an invitation to World Peace through language link.medium.com/In15TEiz1eb
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By way of abstract...
1/ The issue, as I see it, is NOT that the words "black", "dark", or even "Negro" are themselves slurs; they are , in fact NOT slurs. Rather , the problem is that in a world that is so saturated in anti-blackness, both historically and now, especially, ...
1/ The issue, as I see it, is NOT that the words "black", "dark", or even "Negro" are themselves slurs; they are , in fact NOT slurs. Rather , the problem is that in a world that is so saturated in anti-blackness, both historically and now, especially, ...
2/ ... even otherwise "neutral" color terms —especially terms that denote blackness or darkness, even, and especially when they refer to people— absorb, in the popular imagination, negative connotations becuase every day, ordinary language persistently reinforces ...
3/ ... the figurative, metaphorical association of words like "black" and "dark" with profoundly negative and malignant ideas. Is it any wonder that violence against black bodies is so normalized when the language we use without reflection so abhors blackness and darkness? ...
4/ This Medium piece is an iinvitation to educators to contemplate the weight of language in promulgating & reinforcing anti-blackness, and to hopefully choose to engage students and colleagues in correponding contemplations and knowing action to mitigate this trend in language./
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