Nice White Anglophones: Power, Privilege and Monolingualism [Hardcover]

Nice White Anglophones: Privilege, Power and Monolingualism is an innovative work exploring race, power and ideology via an extended fictional case study centring a monolingual white American familyThe Smiths.?

This original book offers a critique of contemporary language education for reinforcing outdated monolingual ideologies. Drawing from queer theory, Russell describes the hopeful concept of languacultural freedom that refers to our capacity to engage in language and culture in ways that are liberating and inclusive, rather than restrictive and hegemonic.

Carl S. Blyth,?University of Texas, USA

Insightful, thought-provoking, and timely, Eric Louis Russells?Nice White Anglophones?offers a probing analysis of the cultural, racial, and class implications of language interactions in the United States and, more broadly, in the globalized world in which we all live.

Prof. Leonardo Buonomo,?Universit? di Trieste, Italy

I absolutely devoured this book. Russell writes as a teacher and a friend, meeting readers in a particularly vulnerable moment.?Nice White Anglophones?invites us to consider urgent, nuanced connections between critical scholarship on language and culture across disciplines and our own questions about the inequitable worlds we have inherited.

Adam Schwartz,?Oregon State University, USA

Eric Louis Russell is Professor of French and Italian at UC Davis, USA.

Introduction; 1: A Fly on the Smith's Wall: Doing Language and Doing Culture; 2. What the Smiths Know, Do and Imagine: The Everyday Life of Nice White Anglophones; 3. On the Town with Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Power, Privilege and the Languacultural Work of Othel#*