Busi Makoni
List of John Benjamins publications in which Busi Makoni is involved.
Articles
2021 Black female scholarship matters: A black female’s reflections on language and sexuality studies 10th Anniversary Issue: Reflections on the Field of Language and Sexuality Studies, Leap, William L. and Heiko Motschenbacher (eds.), pp. 48–58 | Article
In this article, I reflect upon the persistence of racial injustice and sexism in the process of knowledge production. This gendered racial injustice is seen in publication rates, citation rates, and appointments to editorial boards. The underrepresentation of women in general, and black women… read more
2020 Metalinguistic discourses on translanguaging and multimodality: Acts of passing by black African immigrants in Johannesburg Language, Culture and Society 2:1, pp. 66–91 | Article
This article explores metalinguistic discourses of black African immigrants (BAIs) in Johannesburg on how they mobilize multilingual and multimodal resources in their communicative practices to pass as South Africans (SAs), concealing their identities as non-SAs to avert violent xenophobic… read more