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...writing in reference to the article concerning Kuumba and Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert R. Vaux’s Wednesday lecture in Social Analysis 34, “Knowledge of Language” (News, “Kuumba Protests Professor’s Comment...
...learned anything studying linguistics, it is that people often have a great deal of anxiety regarding the way they speak. From the length of vowels to vocabulary choices, language reflects social and cultural status. Coupling that with a long history of struggling for cultural recognition, I can understand the Kuumba members’ reasons for being concerned about Vaux’s comments...
Some of the Kuumba members reportedly stayed for the lecture in order to talk with Vaux afterwards. I wonder whether they paid attention during the lecture. If they had, they would have seen Vaux treat the dialect with respect, seriousness and academic rigor. One Kuumba member’s belief is that the comment was, “really detrimental to the work a lot of members of Kuumba are trying to do in erasing misperceptions about what black culture and diversity are.” On the contrary, Vaux’s lecture supports their stated goal. The quotation...
Vaux’s segue comment, though perhaps both poorly phrased and poorly understood, is not the cause for concern that the Kuumba singers believe it is. I do not believe that this is a case of irresponsibly crying wolf, but rather a misunderstanding and false alarm. The Social Analysis 34 classroom is a forum for the science of language, not the politics of race...
...happened that the Kuumba advertisement coincided with the part of the course that deals with Ebonics,” she said. “End of link. There’s a lecture on Ebonics in ‘Knowledge of Language’ because it’s a topic that interests students and it’s an opportunity to show that Ebonics is not some freaky slang but a regular language with interesting characteristics...