Looking like a language, sounding like a race : raciolinguistic ideologies and the learning of Latinidad
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Looking like a language, sounding like a race : raciolinguistic ideologies and the learning of Latinidad
（Oxford studies in anthropology of language / series editor, Laura M. Ahearn）
Oxford University Press, c2019
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- : softcover
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-269) and index
Softcover ed: 23.5cm
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty-four months of ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork in a Chicago public school, whose student body is more than 90% Mexican and Puerto Rica, to analyze the racialization of language and its relationship to issues of power and national identity. It focuses specifically on youth
socialization to U.S. Latinidad as a contemporary site of political anxiety, raciolinguistic transformation, and urban inequity.
Jonathan Rosa's account studies the fashioning of Latinidad in Chicago's highly segregated Near Northwest Side; he links public discourse concerning the rising prominence of U.S. Latinidad to the institutional management and experience of raciolinguistic identities there. Anxieties surrounding Latinx identities push administrators to transform 'at risk' Mexican and Puerto Rican students into 'young Latino professionals.' This institutional effort, which requires students to learn to be and,
importantly, sound like themselves in highly studied ways, reveals administrators' attempts to navigate a precarious urban terrain in a city grappling with some of the nation's highest youth homicide, dropout, and teen pregnancy rates. Though seemingly well-intentioned, the result for these youths is
often an inauthentic, conflicted identity. Rosa explores the ingenuity of his research participants' responses to these forms of marginalization through the contestation of political, ethnoracial, and linguistic borders.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Making Latinx Identities and Managing American Anxieties
Part I: Looking like a Language: Latinx Ethnoracial Category-Making
Chapter 1: From "Gangbangers and Hoes" to "Young Latino Professionals": Intersectional Mobility and the Ambivalent Management of Stigmatized Student Bodies
Chapter 2: "I heard that Mexicans are Hispanic and Puerto Ricans are Latino": Ethnoracial Contortions, Diasporic Imaginaries, and Institutional Trajectories
Chapter 3: "Latino flavors": Emblematizing, Embodying, and Enacting Latinidad
Part II: Sounding like a Race: Latinx Raciolinguistic Enregisterment
Chapter 4:"They're bilingual that means they don't know the language": The Ideology of Languagelessness in Practice, Policy, and Theory
Chapter 5:"Pink Cheese, Green Ghosts, Cool Arrows/Pinches Gringos Culeros": Inverted Spanglish and Latinx Raciolinguistic Enregisterment
Chapter 6:"That doesn't count as a book, that's real life!": Outlaw(ed) Literacies, Criminalized Intertextualities, and Institutional Linkages
Conclusion: Hearing Limits, Voicing Possibilities
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