Anne H. Charity Hudley, "Talking College: Making Space for Black Language Practices in Higher Education," in conversation with Guadalupe Valdes

Please join us on Thursday, April 28th for our spring quarter Faculty Research Fellows Chautauqua. This book salon event will feature 2021-2022 fellow Anne H. Charity Hudley focusing on her book, Talking College: Making Space for Black Language Practices in Higher Education. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Guadalupe Valdes (Education).

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Anne H. Charity Hudley is a Professsor of Education.

Talking College shows that language is fundamental to Black and African American culture and that linguistic justice is crucial to advancing racial justice, both on college campuses and throughout society. Writing from a linguistics-informed, Black-centered educational framework, the authors draw extensively on Black college students’ lived experiences to present key ideas about African American English and Black language practices. The text presents a model of how Black students navigate the linguistic expectations of college. Grounded in real-world examples of Black undergraduates attending colleges and universities across the United States, the model illustrates the linguistic and cultural balancing acts that arise as Black students work to develop their full linguistic selves. Talking College provides Black students with the knowledge they need to make sense of anti-Black linguistic racism and to make decisions about their linguistic experiences in college. It also offers key insights to help college faculty and staff create the liberating and linguistically just educational community that Black students deserve.

We look forward to seeing you there!