Chapters
1 chapter drafted; 4 more planned.
- Race & Ethnicity
Terminology across racial and ethnic identity. How source guides frame race, where they agree, where community self-identification changes what the "default" term should be, and how the ground has shifted since the mid-2010s.
- Class & Economic Status planned
Terminology for poverty, class, wealth, housing security, and labor — and the framing decisions that determine whether language criminalizes, pathologizes, or centers the people being described.
- Housing planned
Terms around homelessness, unhoused experience, and housing insecurity. Person-first vs. identity-first framings, the rise of 'unhoused,' and the framing tradeoffs between each form.
- Indigenous Identity & Sovereignty planned
Indigenous, Native American, First Nations, Tribal — how source guides frame Indigenous peoples through identity, sovereignty, and political relationship. Capitalization, geographic variants, and sovereignty-first framing as a distinct editorial system.
- Language & Identity planned
How communities name themselves, how those names evolve, and what the meta-rules look like for self-identification, contestation, and audience-aware framing.