Identity and Linguistic Rights in the Spanish Speaking Americas

Description from DukeHub

This course focuses on linguistic justice and linguistic rights in interaction with other human rights. The class explores concepts of language, power, linguistic discrimination, and raciolinguistics in the context of bilingualism/multilingualism, indigenous languages, and endangered languages. We will examine how language is used to shape and negotiate identities, and how it reflects and sustains social realities and situations of social inequality. Methodologically, we will use linguistic and sociolinguistic analysis and elements of critical discourse analysis.

Skills

• languagesdescription: "linguistic" and 5 more
• policy and lawAI review: "linguistic justice and linguistic rights"

AI-resilient: 3 of 5 3/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• ✓Yes: Live work with people · "negotiate"
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "justice"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• ✓Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 15 seats per section

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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