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 **Other reading:** Bucholtz and Hall (2005); Chumley (2017); Rosa and Flores (2017); Smalls (2020)
-We turn to a new question that builds on our past discussions of the politics of linguistic difference. To say that race is a meaningful social distinction in this and every other society would seem to suggest that it is like gender or nationality, that is, another kind of otherness that is opposed to the dominant conception of the person. But because race is a kind of difference that people want to believe is based in the body and in one’s nature. When differences are racialized, it means our bodies are taken as signs for other people, and these bodily signs are taken are more real and more true than anything else we do. How does this process of racialization happen? What are the consequences for societies given that they are necessarily diverse and yet these differences are often highly racialized?
+We turn to a new question that builds on our past discussions of the politics of linguistic difference. To say that race is a meaningful social distinction in this and every other society would seem to suggest that it is like gender or nationality, that is, another kind of otherness that is opposed to the dominant conception of the person. But race is a kind of difference that people want to believe is based in the body and in one’s nature. When differences are racialized, it means our bodies are taken as signs for other people, and these bodily signs are taken are more real and more true than anything else we do. How does this process of racialization happen? What are the consequences for societies given that they are necessarily diverse and yet these differences are often highly racialized?
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