Title Racialized identities in second language learning : speaking Blackness in Brazil / by Uju Anya

Published New York : Routledge, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (253 pages) Series Routledge advances in second language studies ; 1 Routledge advances in second language studies ; 1. Contents Introduction: why a book on race in language learning? -- The African American experience in language study: a review of the research -- Translanguaging identities -- Telling black stories in language learning research -- Nina's story: Race and ethnicity in classrooms and outside -- Didier's story: Translanguaging black manhood in multicultural contexts -- Leti's story: The racialized, gendered, and social classed body -- Rose's story: Redefining participation and success -- Communities and investments in learning a new language Summary Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original sociolinguistic analysis of the African American experience in second language learning. More broadly, this book introduces the idea of second language learning as "transformative socialization": how learners, instructors, and their communities shape new communicative selves as they collaboratively construct and negotiate race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and social class identities. Uju Anya's study follows African American college students learning Portuguese in Afro-Brazilian communities, and their journeys in learning to do and speak blackness in Brazil. Video-recorded interactions, student journals, interviews, and writing assignments show how multiple intersecting identities are enacted and challenged in second language learning. Thematic, critical, and conversation analyses describe ways black Americans learn to speak their material, ideological, and symbolic selves in Portuguese and how linguistic action reproduces or resists power and inequity. The book addresses key questions on how learners can authentically and effectively participate in classrooms and target language communities to show that black students' racialized identities and investments in these communities greatly influencetheir success insecond language learning andhow successful others perceive them to be Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 25, 2017) Subject Second language acquisition -- Social aspects -- Research African American students -- Language -- Research African American students -- Language -- Case studies Black English -- Social aspects -- Research African Americans -- Education -- Research Language and education -- United States Language and education -- Brazil Multilingualism -- Social aspects -- Research Sociolinguistics -- Research POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. African American students -- Language Language and education Sociolinguistics -- Research Brazil United States Genre/Form Electronic books Case studies Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317402718 1317402715 9781315682280 1315682281

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