As a genre, spirituals often focus on the theme of slavery, the practice that is prohibited and openly condemned nowadays. In modern realia, what role does the tradition of performing spirituals play in the reification of race through language practices?

In their text, Chun and Lo define “linguistic racialization” as complex sociocultural processes through which the “material and experiential” realities of race are “kept alive”.

The video contains a bright example of a practice that is religious, arts-related, and linguistic simultaneously. Negro spirituals are still performed by Black women in Christian churches (“The Story of English”). In the past, they served to assist the enslaved populations in coping with their collective trauma.

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