8.10: Let's Talk Language: Under-Resourced

First Name Basis Podcast

Jasmine Bradshaw

How To, Parenting, Education, Kids & Family

5 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Language is always evolving and we need to evolve with it.

Reflecting on the words we’re using and recognizing opportunities to grow and change is a natural (and necessary) part of our anti-racist journeys. It means breaking down and unlearning things that we thought in the past, but the result is language that better aligns with our intent.

So this week we’re taking a look at the term “under-resourced” and discussing why we need to switch it out for something new. If you’ve been around for a while, you’ve already heard me talk about how I changed from using “low-income” to “under-resourced,” but I’ve learned recently that “under-resourced” may not be the most accurate term after all.

In this episode, I share:

• Why I’m now choosing to say “historically exploited communities” or “systemically exploited communities” instead of “under-resourced.”

• More about what it is that causes words and meanings to change.

• The journey I take, the feelings I feel, and the questions I ask myself when I’m considering how my language should change to reflect my anti-racist journey.

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Articles, Studies, & Podcasts Referenced in the Episode

First Name Basis Podcast, Season 8, Episode 2: “What is Coded Language?”

First Name Basis Podcast, Season 3, Episode 7: “Service, Not Saviorism”

First Name Basis Podcast, Season 3, Episode 22: “The Danger of Gaslighting”

“The House of Eve” by Sadeqa Johnson

Bite-Sized Black History (Season 1 features Dr. Charles Drew)

A Guide to Coded Language in Education by Class Trouble

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 8, Episode 10.
0:05.1	Let's Talk Language, Underresourced.
0:12.2	Welcome to the First Name Basis podcast, an anti-racist podcast for schools and families.
0:17.8	I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and it's my job to teach grownups like you
0:21.6	how to talk to kids about race and racism. So let's go. We've got work to do.
0:28.9	Hello, First Name Basis, fam. I am so glad you are here. i hope you've had a great start to your school year
0:39.9	and today we're going to be talking all about schools so in this let's talk language episode we're going to
0:46.0	break down the term under resourced and if you remember if you've been here since the beginning we used to
0:50.8	do these episodes more often where i just broke down a word and talked about
0:54.5	where did it come from and what does it mean and is there something that we could be using that
0:59.2	would better describe what we're trying to talk about. For example, a while back, we did one
1:04.2	called Black or African American where I interviewed different people and asked them, like,
1:09.3	do you prefer to be called black or African
1:10.8	American? And I just feel like these episodes are really important and cool because we can break down
1:16.0	the way that language evolves. And of course, I'm always trying to share with you when I learn
1:22.0	something that helps me along my anti-racist journey. And under-resourced is a word that I've been
1:27.4	using for a long time,
1:28.7	and I've actually recently decided to change it. So let me just break down for you, why.
1:33.6	And I was listening to, do you all listen to what we said? It's such a fun, funny, like, pop-culture-y podcast.
1:40.8	And one of the host, J.C., she was saying recently something to the effect of,
1:45.3	if we're not cringed out by the old versions of ourselves, then that means that we're not
1:49.8	growing. And I mean, first of all, cringed out. That's hilarious. And I was just like,
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