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Creatively Anachronistic Grammars of Power
- Journal of the Early Republic
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 43, Number 1, Spring 2023
- pp. 155-161
- 10.1353/jer.2023.0012
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Abstract:
The contributors to the Forum "What's in a Name?" draw our attention to grammars of power. Words labeling race, ethnicity, gender, and ability assume distinct valences in the guise of pronouns, adjectives, and nouns, plurals and singulars, active and passive constructions.