{"title":"“That ancient and modern wonder”: Giraffes, imperialism, and the making of the American menagerie, 1830–1840","authors":"Alexandra Clayton","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2023.2240011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2023.2240011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48764620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Semantic and semiotic flows: Examining variations and changes of “the N-Words” within an indexical field of dynamic meanings","authors":"Adrienne Ronee Washington","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2023.2235204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2023.2235204","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis study investigates Circum-Atlantic linguistic flows as language change and variation among the “n-words.” Language users do not experience this set of expressions identically. The words include a racial slur as well as expressions that vary in meaning and use. Applying Spears's discussion of semantic neutralization in tandem with Eckert's indexical field model, this research analyzes ethnographic community data from Pittsburgh AAL and online sources to elucidate the competing and dynamic meanings that have developed amidst the shifting realities of the Circum-Atlantic. The study highlights a way to account for multiple layers of interpretation and experience and to encompass the fluidity, mutability, and mobility of n-word meanings within and across linguistic, ethnoracial, and geopolitical boundaries without reductivity. The research clarifies how linguistic competences, lived experiences, and culturally grounded pragmatic and metapragmatic understandings (in)form potential meanings. It, moreover, demonstrates how AAL patterns and cultural models unsettle hegemonic racial and linguistic ideologies.KEYWORDS: African American LanguageBlack LanguagecounterlanguageFlippin the scriptraciolinguistic ideology AcknowledgementsI am eternally grateful to my father, James Woodrow Washington, for teaching me so much about our history, for recounting his experiences, and for offering his wisdom regarding the n-words for the present paper. I would like to express my gratitude to the research participants for sincerely sharing their experiences and entrusting me with their stories. Thanks also to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable recommendations that helped improve the manuscript.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Silverstein, “Shifters,” 14, 17.2 Milroy, “Britain and the United States”; Lippi-Green, English with an Accent; Flores and Rosa, “Undoing Appropriateness”; and Young, Your Average Nigga.3 For further discussion, see Baugh, Out of the Mouths of Slaves; Lanehart, ed., The Oxford Handbook; Mitchell-Kernan, “Signifying and Marking”; Morgan, “The African American Speech Community”; Morgan, “The Africanness of Counterlanguage”; Rahman, “The N Word”; Spears, “African-American Language Use”; Washington, “Bad Words Gone Good”; and Washington, “‘Reclaiming My Time.’”4 For further discussion of spelling ideologies and “flippin the script,” see Alim, Roc the Mic Right; Morgan, “‘Nuthin’ But a G Thang’”; Olivo, “Phat Lines”; Smalls, “Flipping the Script”; and Smitherman, “The Chain Remain the Same.”5 Eckert, “Variation and the Indexical Field”; Spears, “African-American Language Use”.6 Hill, The Everyday Language of White Racism, 38.7 For further discussion, see Davis and Smalls, “Dis/Possession Afoot”; García Peña, “Community as Rebellion”; Meek, “Racing Indian Language”; and Washington and Robinson, “De-Pathologizing Diversity.”8 Calhoun et al., “Attracting Black Students to Linguisti","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135016032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decolonization, diversity and accountability: The role of museums in democracies of the global north","authors":"William Q. Boelhower","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2023.2235194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2023.2235194","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44020686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Glengarry Cairn and Highland loyalism in the British Atlantic world","authors":"Katherine L. McCullough","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2023.2233865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2023.2233865","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48682252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women’s Protestant foreign mission work and settler state formation in Canada: A re-examination of the Scottish diaspora","authors":"Louise Swaffer","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2023.2223504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2023.2223504","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44128305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Afterlives in captivity: Indigeneity and penal deportation in southeastern South America","authors":"Jeffrey A. Erbig","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2023.2205977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2023.2205977","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45993083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the (Holy) Shroud: A glimpse into Afro-Catholicism during the Haitian Revolution","authors":"Miriam Franchina","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2023.2211506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2023.2211506","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46155949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indigenous war captives and mobility-oriented punishments: An Atlantic-Mediterranean world perspective","authors":"Nancy E. van Deusen","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2023.2202138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2023.2202138","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47260290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“By custom and devotion to the Passion of Christ our lord”: Medieval emotion, Enlightenment reason, and Nahua performance","authors":"Louise M. Burkhart","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2023.2194213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2023.2194213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41877688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}