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Raciolinguistics - How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race (Paperback)
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Raciolinguistics - How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race (Paperback)
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Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in
shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. 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, authors cover
a wide range of topics including the struggle over the very term
"African American," the racialized language education debates
within the increasing number of "majority-minority" immigrant
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" in New
York City, among other sites. Taking into account rapidly changing
demographics in the U.S and shifting cultural and media trends
across the globe-from Hip Hop cultures, to transnational Mexican
popular and street cultures, to Israeli reality TV, to new
immigration trends across Africa and Europe-Raciolinguistics shapes
the future of scholarship 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 raciolinguistic contexts in the world.
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