Wed, Feb 16
|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLSGEAKSSo4
THE BLACK SIDE OF THE RIVER Race, Language, and Belonging in Washington, DC
Come learn about the research of sociolinguist, Jessica A. Grieser as she discusses her book, The Black Side of the River: Race Language and Belonging in Washington, DC!

Time & Location
Feb 16, 2022, 7:00 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLSGEAKSSo4
Guests
About The Event
In The Black Side of the River, sociolinguist Jessi Grieser draws on ten years of interviews with dozens of residents of Anacostia, a historically Black neighborhood in Washington, DC, to explore these ideas through the lens of language use. Grieser finds that residents use certain speech features to create connections among racial, place, and class identities; reject negative characterizations of place from those outside the community; and negotiate ideas of belonging. In a neighborhood undergoing substantial class gentrification while remaining decisively Black, Grieser finds that Anacostians use language to assert a positive, hopeful place identity that is inextricably intertwined with their racial one.
About the Author:
Jessi Grieser is an assistant professor of rhetoric, writing, and linguistics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is a sociolinguist who specializes in discourse analysis, geosemiotics, and sociophonetics.