This article explores the potent role of covert linguistic racisms as practices critical for maintenance and transmission of white supremacy (Spears 1999, 2020). Though most Whites benefit from the structural violence of white supremacy, many disclaim their belief in racial hierarchies or participation in racist projects. Though they reject overt racism, they are more open to the effects of covert racism in reproducing racialized categories and naturalizing the patterns of political-economic stratification associated with white supremacy. Covert racism is a product of a language ideological assemblage (Kroskrity 2018) involving raciolinguistic ideologies (Alim 2016; Rosa and Flores 2017) of the “white listening subject” (Rosa and Flores 2020), his/her “folk theory of racism” (Hill 2008), and the deployment of such features as indexicality and anonymity. Two instances of covert racism directed at Native Americans--the academic pejoration of traditional narratives of the Indigenous Mono and Yokuts language communities of Central Cailfornia (Kroskrity 2015) and anonymous internet-circulating jokes about Indians (Meek 2013). The indexical consistency of these racializing practices over time and scales of circulation are linked to settler-colonialism and settler-capitalism (Speed 2018b) as part of the larger project of white supremacy.

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隐蔽的语言种族主义和白人至上的（再）生产

本文探讨了隐蔽的语言种族主义作为维持和传播白人至上的关键做法的潜在作用（Spears 1999, 2020）。尽管大多数白人受益于白人至上的结构性暴力，但许多人否认他们相信种族等级制度或参与种族主义项目。尽管他们拒绝公开的种族主义，但他们更愿意接受隐蔽的种族主义在再现种族化类别和使与白人至上相关的政治经济分层模式自然化方面的影响。隐蔽种族主义是语言意识形态组合（Kroskrity 2018）的产物，涉及“白人听力主体”（Rosa and Flores 2020）的种族语言意识形态（Alim 2016；Rosa and Flores 2017），他/她的“民间种族主义理论”（希尔 2008), 以及索引性和匿名性等功能的部署。两个针对美洲原住民的隐蔽种族主义实例——学术界对加利福尼亚中部土著 Mono 和 Yokuts 语言社区的传统叙事的学术蔑视（Kroskrity 2015）和互联网上关于印第安人的匿名笑话（Meek 2013）。这些种族化做法随时间和流通规模的指数一致性与定居者-殖民主义和定居者-资本主义（Speed 2018b）有关，是更大的白人至上项目的一部分。