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Chapter 1 The Other Asian: Emergence of an Identity -- chapter 2 -- chapter 3 -- chapter 4 From Storeowners to Minivan Drivers: Building Panethnicity With Asian American Stereotypes -- chapter 5 -- chapter 6 Implications for Minority Youth in Alternative Education and Grassroots Video.

This article provides an overview of recent scholarship on postcolonial semiotics: processes through which linguistic and other signs are linked to the colonial and its ongoing relevance in the construction of value. After tracing the question of colonialism across scholarly lineages in linguistic anthropology, this article focuses on elite formations as a key realm within postcolonial semiotics and on "fake," "mix," and "excess" as central qualities that constitute chronotopically anchored dimensions of ambivalent, aspirational postcolonial eliteness. Linguistic anthropological work on postcolonial elite formations illuminates how economic interests are advanced through the creation of ambiguous value around emblems presupposed as colonial and attached to differentiated elite types in fractally recursive forms. Scholarship on postcolonial semiotics reveals how colonial hierarchies persist through the continuous production of divisible interior alterities that create nested categories of the formerly colonized, inventing elite types that are both denigrated and admired for their supposed approximation to imperial modes of being and speaking.

ABSTRACTIn this essay, I discuss how linguistic anthropological scholarship in 2013 has been increasingly confronted by the concepts of "superdiversity," "new media," and "big data." As the "super‐new‐big" purports to identify a contemporary moment in which we are witnessing unprecedented change, I interrogate the degree to which these concepts rely on assumptions about "reality" as natural state versus ideological production. I consider how the super‐new‐big invites us to scrutinize various reconceptualizations of diversity (is it super?), media (is it new?), and data (is it big?), leaving us to inevitably contemplate each concept's implicitly invoked opposite: "regular diversity," "old media," and "small data." In the section on "diversity," I explore linguistic anthropological scholarship that examines how notions of difference continue to be entangled in projects of the nation‐state, the market economy, and social inequality. In the sections on "media" and "data," I consider how questions about what constitutes linguistic anthropological data and methodology are being raised and addressed by research that analyzes new and old technologies, ethnographic material, semiotic forms, scale, and ontology. I conclude by questioning the extent to which it is the super‐new‐big itself or the contemplation about the super‐new‐big that produces perceived change in the world.

This volume examines issues of language, identity, and culture among the rapidly growing Asian Pacific American (APA) population. It cover topics such as media representations of APAs, codeswitching and language crossing, and narratives of ethnic identity.

Citizens confront multiple challenges when attempting to access public services. This article focuses on an aspect yet unaddressed by existing literature on administrative burdens: the complexity of the written language used by government agencies in Latin America. It presents an impact evaluation of the Lenguaje Claro Program of Colombia's National Planning Department. A randomized control trial compared two versions of a letter - the original and one with plain language - used by the property department of the city of Bogota. The study shows that clarifying content via modifications in language, content order, and formatting can reduce citizen's learning costs. Plain language thus has positive effects for both individuals and public institutions. A complementary perception survey revealed that there is significant room for additional simplification, as both the original and the plain language letter were largely poorly rated by citizens.

Citizens confront multiple challenges when attempting to access public services. This article focuses on an aspect yet unaddressed by existing literature on administrative burdens: the complexity of the written language used by government agencies in Latin America. It presents an impact evaluation of the Lenguaje Claro Program of Colombia's National Planning Department. A randomized control trial compared two versions of a letter - the original and one with plain language - used by the property department of the city of Bogota. The study shows that clarifying content via modifications in language, content order, and formatting can reduce citizen's learning costs. Plain language thus has positive effects for both individuals and public institutions. A complementary perception survey revealed that there is significant room for additional simplification, as both the original and the plain language letter were largely poorly rated by citizens.

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race is the first volume to offer a sustained theoretical exploration of all aspects of language and race from a linguistic anthropological perspective. Using state-of-the-art research from a rapidly expanding field, this handbook reveals the ways in which language and race are mutually constituted as social realities. It offers theoretical, reflexive takes on the field of language and race, the larger histories and systems that influence these concepts, the bodies that enact and experience them, and finally, the expressions and outcomes that emerge as a result.

Access to identification cards (IDs) is often required to claim government benefits. However, it is unclear which policies to increase ID ownership are more effective. We experimentally analyze the effect of two policy interventions to induce the timely renewal of identification cards on access to a government social program in Panama. Sending reminders about expiration dates increased the probability of on-time renewals and of accessing benefits from a social program by 12 and 4.3 percentage points, respectively, relative to a control group. In contrast, allowing individuals to renew their ID online only increased renewals and access to benefits by 8 and 2.9 percentage points, respectively. This result was driven by lower-income individuals. The results suggest that policies to increase ownership of valid identity documentation can reduce inclusion errors in government programs and that simply granting access to digital tools may not be enough to unlock important effects.

The article pretends to make a characterization of the cooperative sector in the Valle del Cauca, focusing on worker cooperatives (CTA), considering that this type of association generates an important contribution to the economic and social development of the region, creating opportunities with positive results as a response to the social and economic crises of the country. With a mixed approach and descriptive character, both quantitative and qualitative elements are considered, which are susceptible to be measured through instruments designed for this purpose. Based on the results obtained, it is concluded that, in order to promote the creation of CTA in the region, it is necessary for government entities to create strategies that make this type of associativity visible by approaching cooperativism as an opportunity for economic, social and cultural development. On the other hand, empirical evidence shows that even though there is social recognition of the cooperative sector, particularly worker cooperatives, are not sufficiently widespread in the region and progress in their promotion is insufficient despite the efforts of the governing bodies of the solidarity sector. ; El artículo pretende realizar una caracterización del sector cooperativo en el Valle del Cauca particularizando en las cooperativas de trabajo asociado (CTA), considerando que este tipo de asociatividad genera un importante aporte al desarrollo económico y social de la región creando oportunidades con resultados positivos como respuesta a las crisis sociales y económicas del país. Con un enfoque mixto y carácter descriptivo, se consideran elementos tanto cuantitativos, como cualitativos, los cuales son susceptibles de medición a través de instrumentos diseñados al efecto. Partiendo de los resultados obtenidos, se concluye que, para fomentar la creación de las CTA en la región, es necesario que desde las entidades gubernamentales se creen estrategias que permitan reconocer y visibilizar más este tipo de asociatividad abordando el ...

For decades, marginalized communities have been naming the harms of policing—and the systemic racism that undergirds it—for health and well-being. Only recently have policing practices and racism within policing gained more widespread attention in public health. Building on social justice and emancipatory traditions in health education, we argue that health educators are uniquely prepared to use the evidence base to reframe narratives that drive aggressive policing and their disproportionate impacts on communities of color, promote disinvestment in militarized policing, and build relationships with community-based organizations and community organizers developing community-centered approaches to safety. Using public health institutions and institutions of higher education as examples, we suggest specific strategic actions that health educators can take to address policing as a public health issue. Health educators are uniquely poised to work with diverse community and institutional partners to support social movements that create community-centered, equitable approaches to public safety and health.