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Antifascist Language in Multilingual Societies

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a user's reading list

Media

Badwan, Khawla. "Don’t assume language or dialect is locked to a particular place." The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2018. 

 

Benesch, Susan, and Michael Abramowitz. "A Prelude to Murder: Calling Humans Vermin." Wall Street Journal, 18 Dec. 2013.

 

Benesch, Susan. "Vile Crime or Inalienable Right: Defining Incitement to Genocide." Virginia Journal of International Law, vol. 48, no. 3, 8 Apr. 2018. 

 

Benesch, Susan et al. Dangerous Speech Project, dangerousspeech.org/. 

 

Brostoff, Marissa. “Interview with Natasha Lennard.” The Nation, 15 May 2019. 

 

Chowdhury, Rumman. "Tackling the challenge of ethics in AI." Accenture, 6 June 2018. 

 

Hemon, Aleksandar. "Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight." Literary Hub, 1 Nov. 2018.  

 

Jackson, Paul. “If You Want to Understand Anti-Fascist Movements You Need to Know This History.” HuffPost, 31 October 2017. 

 

Kelly, Kim. “Black Metal Has a Real Nazi Problem” The Outline, 21 April 2019. 

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Kofman, Ava, Francis Tseng and Moira Weigel, "The Hate Store: Amazon's Self-Publishing Arm is a Haven for White Supremacists," ProPublica, 7 April 2020.

 

Komska, Yuliya, et al. Linguistic Disobedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 

 

Komska, Yuliya. "Fascism in Translation." Boston Review, 4 Nov. 2019. 

 

Komska, Yuliya. "In Search of an Anti-Fascist Language." Boston Review, 17 May 2019. 

 

Komska, Yuliya, Michelle Moyd, and David Gramling. "It's not Orwell's Newspeak: Why we must take charge of shaping our language." Euro News, 8 June 2018. 

 

Marco, Jorge. “The Antifascist Tower of Babel: Language Barriers in Civil War Spain.” The Volunteer, 19 November 2019.  

 

Mbembe, Achille. “The Age of Humanism is Ending.” Mail & Guardian, 22 December 2016.

 

Moyd, Michelle, and Yuliya Komska. "Donald Trump is changing our language. We need a vocabulary of resistance." The Guardian, 17 Jan. 2017. 

 

Nichelle, Jae. "“I’m is talking right”: How the stigma around Black language holds us back from liberation." Black Youth Project, 16 Jan. 2018. 

 

Pomeranstev, Peter. "Individualism and the Disinformation State." The American Interest, 27 July 2018.

 

Rafael, Vicente. Interview by Siri Nergaard. "Vicente Rafael Interview." NIDA School of Translation Studies, 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JkZxj80Sy0&feature=youtu.be. 

 

Roche, Gerald. "Linguistic Injustice, Decolonization, and Language Endangerment." Easy Chair Preprint, vol. 1726, 20 Oct. 2019. 

 

Sarkar, Ash. “This isn’t just a culture war - we need a radical anti-fascist movement right now.” The Guardian, 21 August 2018. 

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Stanley, Jason. "If You’re Not Scared About Fascism in the U.S., You Should Be." The New York Times, 15 Oct. 2018. 

 

Stanley, Jason. "Our Increasingly Fascist Public Discourse." Project Syndicate, 25 Jan. 2019. 

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Jason Stanley and David Beaver. "Beware of ‘Snakes,’ ‘Invaders’ and Other Fighting Words: Power is rhetoric, and the ability to convince others they ought to do what you want them to do." The New York Times, 16 May 2019. 

 

Stavans, Ilan. "Trump, the Wall and the Spanish Language." The New York Times, 30 Jan. 2017. 

 

Stavans, Ilan. "For the Love of Spanglish." The New York Times, 20 July 2017. 

 

Tirrell, Lynne. "Words matter. Trump bears a responsibility for El Paso." The Guardian, 10 Aug. 2019.

 

Tworek, Heidi. "How Germany Is Tackling Hate Speech." Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2017.  

 

Tworek, Heidi. "A Lesson from 1930s Germany: Beware State Control of Social Media." The Atlantic, 26 May 2019. 

 

Tworek, Heidi, et al. "We can’t rely solely on Silicon Valley to tackle online hatred." The Globe and Mail, 9 Nov. 2018. 

 

Vanian, Jonathan. "Google’s Hate Speech Detection A.I. Has a Racial Bias Problem." Fortune, 16 Aug. 2019. 

 

Weigel, Moira. "Coders of the world, unite: can Silicon Valley workers curb the power of Big Tech?" The Guardian, 31 Oct. 2017. 

Books and academic resources

Baker-Bell, April. "CrossRef citations to date Articles Dismantling anti-black linguistic racism in English language arts classrooms: Toward an anti-racist black language pedagogy." Theory into Practice, vol. 59, no. 1, 14 Nov. 2019, pp. 8-21.

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Baker-Bell, April. Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy. Routledge, 2020. 

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Analysing Fascist Discourse: European Fascism in Talk and Text. Edited by Ruth Wodak and John E. Richardson, Routledge, 2013. 

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Benjamin, Ruha. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Polity Press, 2019. 

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Bray, Mark. Antifa: the Anti-Fascist Handbook. Melville House, 2017.

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Gramling, David. The Invention of Monolingualism. Bloomsbury, 2016. 

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Hutton, Christopher. Linguistics and the Third Reich: Mother-Tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language. Routledge, 1999. 

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Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. One World, 2019. 

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Klemperer, Victor. Language of the Third Reich: LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii. The Athlone Press, 2000. 

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Ruth Wodak, ed. Language, Power and Ideology: Studies in political discourse. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1989.  

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Lennard, Natasha. Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life. Verso, 2019. 

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Neumayer, Christina, and Bjarki Valtysson. "Tweet against Nazis? Twitter, power, and networked publics in anti-fascist protests." MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, no. 55, 2013, pp. 3-20. 

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Neumayer, Christina. "Nationalist and Anti-Fascist Movements in Social Media." The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics, edited by Axel Bruns, Gunn Enli, Eli Skogerbo, Anders O. Larsson, and Christian Christensen, Routledge, 2016. 

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Noble, Safiya U. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York University Press, 2018. 

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Noble, Safiya U. "Critical Surveillance Literacy in Social Media: Interrogating Black Death and Dying Online." Black Camera, vol. 9, no. 2, 2018, pp. 147-60.

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Phipps, Alison. Decolonising Multilingualism: Struggles to Decreate. Multilingual Matters, 2019. 

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Rafael, Vicente L. Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation. Duke University Press, 2016. 

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Rosa, Jonathan, and Nelson Flores. "Unsettling race and language: Toward a raciolinguistic perspective." Language in Society, vol. 46, no. 5, Nov. 2017, pp. 621-47. 

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Rosa, Jonathan. Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad. Oxford University Press, 2019. 

 

Sabino, Robin. Languaging Without Languages: Beyond Metro-, Multi-, Poly-, Pluri- And Translanguaging. Brill, 2018. 

 

Senft, T. and Noble, S.. Race and Social Media. In The Routledge Handbook of Social Media. Eds. Senft, Theresa M., & Hunsinger, Jeremy. Routledge, 2013. 

 

Shulist, Sarah. Transforming Indigeneity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon. University of Toronto Press, 2018. 

 

Stanley, Jason. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Random House, 2018.
 

Stevenson, Patrick. Language and German Disunity: A Sociolinguistic History of East and West in Germany, 1945-2000. 1 ed., Oxford University Press, 2003. 

 

Tirrell, Lynne. “Listen to What You Say: Rwanda’s Postgenocide Language policies.” New England Journal of Public Policy, Volume 27, Issue 1, 2017.

 

Vials, Christopher. Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United States. University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.

 

The US Antifascism Reader. edited by Christopher Vials and Bill V. Mullen, Verso, 2020. 

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Compiled by Annabel Jankovic and Sage Engberg

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