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Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race - Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Hardcover)
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Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race - Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Hardcover)
Series: Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language
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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.
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