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Krystal Smalls is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research specializes in Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, and Cultural Anthropology, with a focus on African Diaspora Studies. Smalls conducts ethnographic research primarily among young people in the Black Diaspora, exploring themes such as race, semiotics, digital space, gender, and language ideology. One of her notable works, 'Telling Blackness: Young Liberians Raciosemiotics Contemporary Black Diaspora', will be published by Oxford University Press in 2024. The book offers a transdisciplinary ethnographic account of meaning-making practices among Liberian young women, challenging conventional narratives and power dynamics surrounding Black life. She critically examines the use of language in digital spaces and the implications for public discourse around antiblack ideologies. Smalls has a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (2015) and a BS from Cornell University (2000).
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