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Ellen Afterman, Clinton Sanders and Spellman Young discuss the exclusionary power of language

BROADCAST: 1970 | DURATION: 00:29:17

Synopsis

Ellen Afterman, Clinton Sanders and Spellman Young discuss the exclusionary power of language; i.e. white, middle-class language as the standard by which people are intellectually and socially judged, and how groups are using language to define identity.