Dr. April Baker-Bell
Featured Speaker, Expanding Equity in Educational Research Speaker Series
We Wanna Be Linguistically Free Too:
Let’s Talk about Black Linguistic Justice
Thursday, November 19, 2020 via Zoom
5:00 pm–7:00 pm PST
Please register for this free Zoom presentation here.
About the Speaker
Dr. April Baker-Bell is a transdisciplinary
teacher-researcher-activist and Associate Professor of Language,
Literacy, and English Education in the Department of English and
Department of African American and African Studies at Michigan
State University. A national leader in conversations on Black
Language education, her research interrogates the intersections
of Black language and literacies, anti-Black racism, and
antiracist pedagogies, and is concerned with antiracist writing,
critical media literacies, Black feminist-womanist storytelling,
and self-preservation for Black women in academia, with an
emphasis on early career Black women.
Baker-Bell’s recently published book, Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, brings together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism and white linguistic supremacy. Baker-Bell is also co-founder of the Black Language Magazine and #BlackLanguageSyllabus with Dr. Carmen Kynard.
