‘I, Too, Am America’

Abstract

Langston Hughes’ “I, Too” recognizes that Black Americans are intentionally erased or omitted from the stories America wants to remember. This strategy is rampant in scholarship. In this presentation, Lanehart analyzes race, ethnicity, and gender as articulated in the feature articles published in several linguistics journals from their inception until 2018. She will employ a Critical Race Theory framework and Intersectionality to reveal a lack of research that is inclusive of people of color or that is by scholars of color. This is part of a large-scale project whose aim is to expose racism in scholarship and propose an anti-racist Language and Linguistics research agenda.