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Gukurahundism, Constitutionality and Ethnonationalist Language Policy Contestations: An Ideological Critique of Mediated Discourses About Mother Tongue Instruction in Zimbabwe

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to ...
Khulekani Ndlovu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling Language Prejudice: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Racial Slurs Across Genres

open access: yesJournal of Languages and Language Teaching
Discrimination and racism have been obvious for decades. This encompasses derogatory racial epithets such as "nigger, niggers, n-words". The objective of this study was to employ corpus-based analysis in order to examine the frequency of racial ...
Fadhlur Rahman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Caenorhabditis elegans as an in vivo model system for human inherited primary arrhythmia syndromes

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend Most genes involved in inherited primary arrhythmia syndromes (IPAS) are conserved in Caenorhabditis elegans, where genetic manipulation enables functional characterization of variants, identification of regulatory proteins, and in vivo drug testing.
Antoine Delinière   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnic Terms in Turkish

open access: yesAnnales, Series Historia et Sociologia
This article examines the complex phenomenon of Ethnic/Social Terms used as Insults (ESTIs) in Turkish, focusing on ethnic terms such as ‘Ermeni’ (Armenian), ‘Yunan’ (Greek), ‘Rum’ (Greek), and ‘Yahudi’ (Jew/Jewish). These terms uniquely function as both
Melike Akkaraca Kose
doaj   +1 more source

“Feeling out of place”: A mixed methods investigation of the impostor phenomenon among BIPOC and LGBTQ STEM college students

open access: yesAnalyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Volume 26, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract This mixed‐methods study examines the experience of the impostor phenomenon in a racially/ethnically and sexually diverse sample of undergraduates in majors related to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Guided by an intersectionality framework, we examined whether experiences of the impostor phenomenon differ at the ...
Richard Chang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“If I'm going to be an ally, I have to walk the walk”: Negotiating Occupational Activism Within K‐12 Educational Contexts

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 3, August 2026.
Conservative lawmakers are increasingly passing legislation that would ban the teaching of race, gender, and sexuality within K‐12 schools. Because these bills impact both teachers and students, it is important to understand how teachers perceive, and potentially resist, these bills.
Jessica L. Schachle‐Gordon
wiley   +1 more source

Appropriating a Slur

open access: yesM/C Journal, 2002
The word 'nigger' is arguably the most charged epithet in American English; thus it is surprising that this word has been appropriated by some African Americans to refer to themselves. To be precise, the African-American version of this term is not 'nigger' but 'nigga', a word that has, as Geneva Smitherman notes, "a ...
openaire   +1 more source

Nightclubs, Interactive Service Labor, and Objectification Practices: Workers' Experiences in Elite Nightlife

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 3, August 2026.
Nightlife settings have been the focus of sociological inquiry for decades, with existing studies primarily focused on consumers and selective entry to elite clubs. However, workers' experiences have been largely overlooked. This study examines workers' experiences in elite nightclubs, including getting hired and interacting with managers and consumers.
Sara Yamadi, Virginia Riel
wiley   +1 more source

REMARKS ON “THE SEMANTICS OF RACIAL SLURS” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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Croom, Adam M., Adam M. Croom
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