The languages we study, as well as their speakers and our students, would benefit from a re-imagined approach to linguistics – one that underscores the historical, social, and political contexts surrounding the structures we investigate. Particularly for LatinUs and others whose ways of speaking are stigmatized, a linguistics that focuses on forms while ignoring what people say about their lives alienates the members of those groups who are attracted by the study of language, and its emancipatory possibilities. To combat the reproduction of linguistic and educational inequality, I advocate an anthro-political linguistics, emphasizing the central role that power plays in language and exposing the ways in which language is falsely constructed as the root of educational, cultural, social, and political problems.
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