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Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race


Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race

Hardback by Alim, H. Samy (Professor of Education, Professor of Education, Stanford University); Rickford, John R. (J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities, Stanford University); Ball, Arnetha F. (Professor of Education, Professor of Education, Stanford University)

Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race

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ISBN:
9780190625696
Publication Date:
8 Dec 2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Inc
Pages:
376 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 21 - 29 May 2024
Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race

Description

Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-to share powerful, much-needed research that helps us understand the increasingly vexed relationships between race, ethnicity, and language in our rapidly changing world. Combining the innovative, cutting-edge approaches of race and ethnic studies with fine-grained linguistic analyses, chapters cover a wide range of topics including the language use of African American Jews and the struggle over the very term "African American," the racialized language education debates within the increasing number of "majority-minority" immigrant communities as well as Indigenous communities in the U.S., the dangers of multicultural education in a Europe that is struggling to meet the needs of new migrants, and the sociopolitical and cultural meanings of linguistic styles used in Brazilian favelas, South African townships, Mexican and Puerto Rican barrios in Chicago, and Korean American "cram schools," among other sites. With rapidly changing demographics in the U.S.-population resegregation, shifting Asian and Latino patterns of immigration, new African American (im)migration patterns, etc.-and changing global cultural and media trends (from global Hip Hop cultures, to transnational Mexican popular and street cultures, to Israeli reality TV, to new immigration trends across Africa and Europe, for example)-Raciolinguistics shapes the future of studies on race, ethnicity, and language. By taking a comparative look across a diverse range of language and literacy contexts, the volume seeks not only to set the research agenda in this burgeoning area of study, but also to help resolve pressing educational and political problems in some of the most contested racial, ethnic, and linguistic contexts in the world.

Contents

NEW: Preface to the Paperback Edition: Language, Race, and the Academy: Building Intellectual Community beyond the Confines of Our Institutional Constraints H. Samy Alim Introducing Raciolinguistics: Racing Language and Languaging Race in Hyperracial Times H. Samy Alim, University of California, Los Angeles 1. Who's Afraid of the Transracial Subject?: Raciolinguistics and the Political Project of Transracialization H. Samy Alim, University of California, Los Angeles 2. From Upstanding Citizen to North American Rapper and Back Again: The Racial Malleability of Poor Male Brazilian Youth Jennifer Roth-Gordon, University of Arizona 3. From Mock Spanish to Inverted Spanglish: Language Ideologies and the Racialization of Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth in the United States Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University 4. The Meaning of Chin- Chong: Language, Racism, and Response in New Media Elaine W. Chun, University of South Carolina 5. "Suddenly faced with a Chinese Village": The Linguistic Racialization of Asian Americans Adrienne Lo, University of Waterloo 6. Ethnicity and Extreme Locality in South Africa's Multilingual Hip Hop Ciphas Quentin E. Williams, University of the Western Cape 7. Norteño and Sureño Gangs, Hip Hop, and Ethnicity on YouTube: Localism in California through Spanish Accent Variation Norma Mendoza-Denton, University of California, Los Angeles Part II. Racing Language 8. Toward Heterogeneity: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on the Classification of Black People in the Twenty-First Century Renée Blake, New York University 9. Jews of Color: Performing Black Jewishness through the Creative Use of Two Ethnolinguistic Repertoires Sarah Bunin Benor, Hebrew Union College 10. Pharyngeal Beauty and Depharyngealized Geek: Performing Ethnicity on Israeli Reality TV Roey Gafter, Tel Aviv University 11. Stance as a Window into the Language-Race Connection: Evidence from African American and White Speakers in Washington, D.C. Robert J. Podesva, Stanford University 12. Changing Ethnicities: The Evolving Speech Styles of Punjabi Londoners Devyani Sharma, Queen Mary, University of London Part III. Language, Race, and Education in Changing Communities 13. "It Was a Black City": African American Language in California's Changing Urban Schools and Communities Django Paris, Michigan State University 14. Zapotec, Mixtec, and Purepecha Youth: Multilingualism and the Marginalization of Indigenous Immigrants in the United States William Perez, Claremont Graduate University; Rafael Vasquez, Universidad Autonóma; and Raymond Burie, Pomona College 15. On Being Called Out of One's Name: Indexical Bleaching as a Technique of Deracialization Mary Bucholtz, University of California, Santa Barbara 16. Multiculturalism and Its Discontents: Essentializing Ethnic Moroccan and Roma Identities in Classroom Discourse in Spain Inmaculada García-Sánchez, University of California, Los Angeles 17. The Voicing of Asian American Figures: Korean Linguistic Styles at an Asian American Cram School Angela Reyes, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY 18. "Socials," "Poch@s," "Normals" y los demás: School Networks and Linguistic Capital of High School Students on the Tijuana-San Diego Border" Ana Celia Zentella, University of California, San Diego 19. NEW: Sorry to Bother You: Deepening the Political Project of Raciolinguistics H.Samy Alim, University of California, Los Angeles Index

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