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Raciolinguistics : how language shapes our ideas about race

Title

Raciolinguistics : how language shapes our ideas about race / edited by H. Samy Alim, John R. Rickford and Arnetha F. Ball.

Format

Book

Published

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016] ©2016

Description

vii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other contributors

Alim, H. Samy, editor. Rickford, John R., 1949- editor. Ball, Arnetha F., 1950- editor.

Cover title

Racio linguistics

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introducing raciolinguistics: racing language and languaging race in hyperracial times / H. Samy Alim
• Part 1. Languaging race. Who's afraid of the transracial subject?: raciolinguistics and the political project of transracialization / H. Samy Alim ; From upstanding citizen to North American rapper and back again: the racial malleability of poor male Brazilian youth / Jennifer Roth-Gordon ; From mock Spanish to inverted Spanglish: language ideologies and the racialization of Mexican and Puerto Rican youth in the United States / Jonathan Rosa ; The meaning of Ching-Chong: language, racism, and response in new media / Elaine W. Chun ; "Suddenly faced with a Chinese village": the linguistic racialization of Asian Americans / Adrienne Lo ; Ethnicity and extreme locality in South Africa's multilingual Hip Hop Ciphas / Quentin E. Williams ; Norteño and Sureño gangs, Hip Hop, and ethnicity on YouTube: localism in California through Spanish accent variation / Norma Mendoza-Denton
• Part 2. Racing language. Toward heterogeneity: a sociolinguistic perspective on the classification of Black people in the twenty-first century / Renée Blake ; Jews of color: performing Black Jewishness through the creative use of two ethnolinguistic repertoires / Sarah Bunin Benor ; Pharyngeal beauty and depharyngealized geek: performing ethnicity on Israeli reality tv / Roey Gafter ; Stance as a window into the language-race connection: evidence from African American and White Speakers in Washington, DC / Robert J. Podesva ; Changing ethnicities: the evolving speech styles of Punjabi Londoners / Devyani Sharma
• Part 3. Language, race, and education in changing communities. "It was a Black city": African American language in California's changing urban schools and communities / Django Paris ; Zapotec, Mixtec, and Purepecha youth: multilingualism and the marginalization of indigenous immigrants in the United States / William Perez, Rafael Vasquez, and Raymond Buriel ; On being called out of one's name: indexical bleaching as a technique on deracialization / Mary Bucholtz ; Multiculturalism and its discontents: essentializing ethnic Moroccan and Roma identies in classroom discourse in Spain / Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez ; The voicing of Asian American figures: Korean linguistic styles at an Asian American cram school / Angela Reyes ; "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. 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.

Subject headings

Racism in language. Critical discourse analysis--Social aspects. Sociolinguistics.

ISBN

9780190625696 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 0190625694 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 9780190625719 (epub) 9780190625726 (online)