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Author Bucholtz, Mary

Title White Kids : Language, Race and Styles of Youth Identity
Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (295 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Transcription conventions; Phonetic symbols; 1 White styles: language, race, and youth identities; 2 Listening to whiteness: researching language and race in a California high school; 3 Cliques, crowds, and crews: social labels in racial space; 4 Say word?: race and style in white teenage slang; 5 I'm like yeah but she's all no: innovative quotative markers and preppy whiteness; 6 Pretty fly for a white guy: European American hip hop fans and African American English
7 We're through being cool: white nerds, superstandard English, and the rejection of trendiness8 "Not that I'm racist": strategies of colorblindness in talk about race and friendship; 9 White on black: narratives of racial fear and resentment; 10 "I guess I'm white": ethnoracial labels and the problem of whiteness; 11 Audible whiteness; Notes; References; Index
Summary The first book to use techniques of linguistic analysis to examine the construction of diverse white identities
Notes English
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Subject Teenagers -- Language.
Children, White.
Language and culture.
Children, White
Language and culture
Teenagers -- Language
Form Electronic book
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