Resumen de Talking race

Lene Bech Sillesen

• Nicholas Subtirelu, a PhD student in linguistics at Georgia State University was thinking about his own generation's rejection of once-acceptable racial labels when he decided to study the changing use of those labels in journalism. More specifically, how racial labels have changed in The New York Times between 1851 and 2014, which is the timespan of the Times' online Chronicle tool that allowed Subtirelu to track the paper's historical usage of various words.