In Season 2, Episode 1 of Anthropological Airwaves, we talk with Adrienne Lo (Waterloo) and Jonathan Rosa (Stanford) about race and language in Korea and the United States. In conversation with Kristina Nielsen and Diego Arispe-Bazán, Lo and Rosa identify and critique the ways that different kinds of English, and by extension the speakers of these different kinds of English, are understood through racialized lenses in varying contexts. These racialized stereotypes of groups of people based on how they are perceived to speak spill over into many social domains, affecting everything from educational policy in the US to economic advancement in Korea. Full episode transcript. 

Credits: 

Interviewer: Kristina Nielsen & Diego Arispe-Bazán

Producer: Diego Arispe-Bazán

Editors: Diego Arispe-Bazán and Kyle Olson

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