FORMAL AND INFORMAL PEDAGOGIES Believing in Race, Teaching Race, Hearing Race
The cultural belief that voices are the unmediated expression and evidence of transpersonal categories, such as gender and race, is strong. When discussing this reality, I often invoke the example of Charles Clifford, an African American man who, in 1999, was convicted for selling drugs on the basis...
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| Published in | The Race of Sound p. 39 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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United States
Duke University Press
06.12.2018
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| Summary: | The cultural belief that voices are the unmediated expression and evidence of transpersonal categories, such as gender and race, is strong. When discussing this reality, I often invoke the example of Charles Clifford, an African American man who, in 1999, was convicted for selling drugs on the basis that the perceived sound of his voice made him culpable for the crime.¹ Yet Clifford’s imprisonment—a result of what his lawyers called “linguistic profiling”—runs against the grain of influential humanities scholarship that has carefully demonstrated that audiovisual markers of race are highly subjective. Moreover linguists have convincingly shown that word |
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| ISBN: | 9780822368564 0822368560 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv11hpntq.5 |