Language Diversity at NC State
Length: 5:51
Students, professors, and administrators at NC State University share their perspectives about language diversity on campus.
Housing Discrimination PSA
Length: 1:00
This is a public service announcement created by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. It is based on John Baugh’s study on the role of linguistic profiling within housing discrimination. Though it is a dramatization, it is emblematic of the thousands of linguistic profiling cases documented by HUD each day.
Talking Black in America – Education
Length: 2:50
Linguists discuss discrimination against African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the classroom, particularly with regard to the “Ebonics” Controversy of the mid-90’s.
Talking Black in America – Skill
Length: 2:32
This video highlights the verbal dexterity employed by Black artists in hip hop.
First language: The Race to Save Cherokee (full movie)
Length: 56:08
This Emmy Award-winning documentary chronicles the efforts of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to preserve and revitalize the endangered Cherokee language.
Voices of North Carolina (full movie)
Length: 56:22
This public television special showcases the diversity of language and dialect in North Carolina.
Spanish Voices (full movie)
Length: 26:59
Around the turn of the 21st century, the Spanish-speaking population in the Southeastern US underwent a period of unprecedented growth. This growth led to major language change issues about the co-existence of English and Spanish in the American South. SPANISH VOICES tells the story of those who have participated in this change through interviews with musicians, teachers, students, dancers, immigrants, workers, and long-time residents. This snapshot of life in the south is a valuable resource for anyone learning about language contact.
Indian By Birth: The Lumbee Dialect (full movie)
Length: 28:08
The Lumbee Tribe is the largest tribe east of the Mississippi River and the ninth largest in the nation. Stripped of their heritage language generations ago, the Lumbee Indians of today find expression for their cultural identity in a unique dialect of English.
The Carolina Brogue: Language of the Outer Banks
Length: 4:23
Excerpt from “The Carolina Brogue,” a documentary about the language and life of the North Carolina Outer Banks.
The Ocracoke Brogue (full movie)
Length: 20:42
This first documentary produced by the Language and Life Project captures the spirit and personality of O’Cockers and the character of language and life on the Outer Banks.
The Cherokee Language
Length: 9:58
The language and culture of the Cherokee Nation in the Appalachian region of North Carolina Excerpt from from the documentary “Voices of North Carolina”
Dialect in Southern Cities
Length: 7:21
Excerpt from “Voices of North Carolina” addressing the case Charlotte, NC and general language trends in southern cities.