Monthly Archives: September 2013

Gizoogle: Amusing tribute or racist caricature? – NSFW (part 2)

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Nic Subtirelu — 3 Comments

In my last post, I took up the question of whether the website Gizoogle (see the previous post for an explanation of it) is an amusing tribute to hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg, a racist caricature of African American English (AAE),…

Gizoogle: Amusing tribute or racist caricature? – NSFW (part 1)

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Nic Subtirelu — 4 Comments

Just as a warning: this post contains a number of examples from the website Gizoogle, which uses quite a bit of language not appropriate for many workplaces. Gizoogle, as shown in the picture above, is a website that parodies the…

Hearing skin color: The connections between language and race

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Nic Subtirelu — 3 Comments

What is race? What does it mean to be White, Black, Asian, Latina/o, or any other identifiable race? Most of us probably think of it as something marked on our bodies. It’s the pigment of our skin, the shape of…