My friend, tutor and mentor, Colin Williams, who has died aged 75, was an academic with a special focus on how politics and policies can shape the future of the world’s languages.As a Welshman he had a particular interest in the Welsh language, but his comparative work also took him well beyond his
Seminar teaches how to ‘resist anti-Black linguistic racism,’ ‘build linguistic justice’
Manchester Metropolitan University recently hosted a seminar on resisting anti-Black linguistic racism, featuring scholars April Baker-Bell and Davena Jackson. They discussed the oppressive systems affecting Black language speakers and proposed transformative pedagogies to challenge anti-Blackness i
