1st Edition
Nice White Anglophones Power, Privilege and Monolingualism
Introduction; 1: A Fly on the Smith's Wall: Doing Language and Doing Culture; 2. What the Smiths Know, Do and Imagine: The Everyday Life of Nice White Anglophones; 3. On the Town with Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Power, Privilege and the Languacultural Work of Others; 4. Around the World with the Smiths: Banal Globalization, Languacultural Commodification and Anglophonism; 5. The Smiths Go to School: Learning Anglophone Hegemony; Conclusion: Languaculture, Freedom and Futurity; Glossary
Biography
Eric Louis Russell is Professor of French and Italian at UC Davis, USA.
"This original book offers a critique of contemporary language education for reinforcing outdated monolingual ideologies. Drawing from queer theory, Russell describes the hopeful concept of languacultural freedom that refers to our capacity to engage in language and culture in ways that are liberating and inclusive, rather than restrictive and hegemonic."
Carl S. Blyth, University of Texas, USA
"Insightful, thought-provoking, and timely, Eric Louis Russell’s Nice White Anglophones offers a probing analysis of the cultural, racial, and class implications of language interactions in the United States and, more broadly, in the globalized world in which we all live."
Prof. Leonardo Buonomo, Università di Trieste, Italy
"I absolutely devoured this book. Russell writes as a teacher and a friend, meeting readers in a particularly vulnerable moment. Nice White Anglophones invites us to consider urgent, nuanced connections between critical scholarship on language and culture across disciplines and our own questions about the inequitable worlds we have inherited."
Adam Schwartz, Oregon State University, USA
