KRYSTAL A. SMALLS, phD

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• “Fat, Black, and Ugly: The Semiotic Production of Prodigious Femininities.” Transforming Anthropology 29, no. 1 (2021): 12-28.

• Davis, Jenny L. and Krystal A. Smalls. “Dis/possession Afoot: American (Anthropological) Traditions of Anti-Blackness and Coloniality” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15 , no. 2 (2021): 275-282.

• “Fighting Words: Antiblackness and Discursive Violence in an American High School.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 28, no 3 (2018): 356-383. 

• ‘We had lighter tongues’: Making and mediating Gullah/Geechee personhood in the South Carolina Lowcountry,” Language and Communication 32, no. 20 (2012): 147-159.

• “Flipping the Script: (Re)constructing Personhood through Hip Hop Languaging in a U.S. High School,” Working Papers in Educational Linguistics 25, no. 2 (2010): 35-54.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS:

•  “Race, Language, and the Body: Towards a Theory of Racial Semiotics” in the Oxford Handbook of Language and Race, edited by H. Samy Alim, Paul Kroskrity, Angela Reyes, and Jonathan Rosa. Oxford University Press. (2020).

• “Languages of Liberation: Digital Discourses of Emphatic Blackness” In Language and Social Justice in Practice, edited by Netta Avineri, Robin Conley Riner, Laura Graham, Eric Johnson, and Jonathan Rosa. Routledge. (In press)​

•  “Racialized Masculinity in Digital Space” in Gender: Space, edited by Aimee Meredith Cox.  Macmillan Reference USA, (2018): 301-315. 

• “The Proverbial Monkey on Our Backs: Exploring the Politics of Belonging Among Transnational African Students in a US High School.” In US Education in a World of Migration, edited by Jill Koyama and Mathangi Subramanian, New York: Routledge, 2014.

 

BOOK REVIEWS:

• Review of Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity, by John L. Jackson, Transforming Anthropology 21, no. 2 (2013): 205-207.

• Review of The Real Hiphop: Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in the LA Underground, by Marcyliena Morgan, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 22, no. 3 (2013): 247-250.

• Review of Languages of Global Hip Hop (with Catrice Barrett) , edited by Marina Terkourafi, Anthropology & Education Quarterly 43, no. 4 (2012): 446-448.

Other Stuff: ​

• Smalls, Krystal A., Arthur K. Spears and Jonathan Rosa. “Introduction: Language and White Supremacy.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15, no. 2 (2021): 152-156.

• “Introduction to the Forum on Language and Anti-Blackness.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15, no. 2 (2021): 258-260.

• ​“Daughters of the Dust and the Place of the Gullah/Geechee” Public I (April 2017). http://publici.ucimc.org/daughters-of-the-dust-and-the-place-of-the-gullahgeechee/  
   

 

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