Marcyliena Morgan "Language and Identity: Race and Class"

Marcyliena Morgan is Associate Professor of Communications at Stanford University. She is the founding director of the Hiphop Archive at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. Her research has focused on youth, gender, language, culture and identity, sociolinguistics, discourse and interaction. She is the author of, Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture (2002) and Editor of Language and the Social Construction of Identity in Creole Situations (1994).

Her other publications include articles and chapters on gender and women's speech, language ideology, discourse and interaction among Caribbean women in London and Jamaica, urban youth language and interaction, hiphop culture, and language education planning and policy. She is currently completing a book on hiphop culture entitled The Real Hiphop - Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in the Underground.