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2018
Volume 73, Issue 4
  • ISSN: 0010-096X
  • E-ISSN: 1939-9006

Abstract

This article argues that our course descriptions may perpetuate White language supremacy (WLS) by regularly using specific terms and policing racialized student populations for written standardness more so than White student populations.

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