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Title Raciolinguistics : how language shapes our ideas about race / edited by H. Samy Alim, John R. Rickford and Arnetha F. Ball
Published Oxford New York Oxford University Press [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 362 pages) illustrations
Contents Introducing raciolinguistics: racing language and languaging race in hyperracial times / H. Samy Alim -- Part 1. Languaging race. 1. Who's afraid of the transracial subject?: raciolinguistics and the political project of transracialization / H. Samy Alim ; 2. From upstanding citizen to North American rapper and back again: the racial malleability of poor male Brazilian youth / Jennifer Roth-Gordon ; 3. From mock Spanish to inverted Spanglish: language ideologies and the racialization of Mexican and Puerto Rican youth in the United States / Jonathan Rosa ; 4. The meaning of Ching-Chong: language, racism, and response in new media / Elaine W. Chun ; 5. "Suddenly faced with a Chinese village": the linguistic racialization of Asian Americans / Adrienne Lo ; 6. Ethnicity and extreme locality in South Africa's multilingual Hip Hop Ciphas / Quentin E. Williams ; 7. Norteño and Sureño gangs, Hip Hop, and ethnicity on YouTube: localism in California through Spanish accent variation / Norma Mendoza-Denton -- Part 2. Racing language. 8. Toward heterogeneity: a sociolinguistic perspective on the classification of Black people in the twenty-first century / Renée Blake ; 9. Jews of color: performing Black Jewishness through the creative use of two ethnolinguistic repertoires / Sarah Bunin Benor ; 10. Pharyngeal beauty and depharyngealized geek: performing ethnicity on Israeli reality TV / Roey Gafter; 11. Stance as a window into the language-race connection: evidence from African American and White speakers in Washington, DC / Robert J. Podesva ; 12. Changing ethnicities: the evolving speech styles of Punjabi Londoners / Devyani Sharma -- Part 3. 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 ; 14. Zapotec, Mixtec, and Purepecha youth: multilingualism and the marginalization of indigenous immigrants in the United States / William Perez, Rafael Vasquez, and Raymond Buriel ; 15. On being called out of one's name: indexical bleaching as a technique on deracialization / Mary Bucholtz ; 16. Multiculturalism and its discontents: essentializing ethnic Moroccan and Roma identities in classroom discourse in Spain / Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez ; 17. The voicing of Asian American figures: Korean linguistic styles at an Asian American cram school / Angela Reyes ; 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
Summary Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race. This team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-shares powerful, much-needed research to help us understand the increasingly vexed relationships between race, ethnicity, and language in our rapidly changing world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Racism in language
Critical discourse analysis -- Social aspects
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Racism in language
Sociolinguistics
Form Electronic book
Author Alim, H. Samy, editor.
Rickford, John R., 1949- editor
Ball, Arnetha F., 1950- editor.
ISBN 9780190625702
0190625708
9780190625726
0190625724
9780190625719
0190625716
Other Titles Racio linguistics
How language shapes our ideas about race