Edythe Weeks

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Weeks, Edythe 2003 Highlighting the chameleon nature of power: The social practice and ideological effects of the label “African-American” Journal of Language and Politics 1:2, pp. 323–354 | Discussion
This essay uses a poststructural/critical race analysis, and provides a specific example of how the social practice of labeling serves to create major ideological effects, which produce and reproduce unequal race-based power relations. Certain U.S. citizens are ascribed/branded with the seemingly… read more