White Kids - Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity (Hardcover, New title)

In White Kids, Mary Bucholtz investigates how white teenagers use language to display identities based on race and youth culture. Focusing on three youth styles - preppies, hip hop fans, and nerds - Bucholtz shows how white youth use a wealth of linguistic resources, from social labels to slang, from Valley Girl speech to African American English, to position themselves in the school's racialized social order. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a multiracial urban California high school, the book also demonstrates how European American teenagers talk about race when discussing interracial friendship and difference, narrating racialized fear and conflict, and negotiating their own ethnoracial classification. The first book to use techniques of linguistic analysis to examine the construction of diverse white identities, it will be welcomed by researchers and students in linguistics, anthropology, ethnic studies and education.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	2011
Authors:	Mary Bucholtz
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
Edition:	New title
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-87149-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics
LSN:	0-521-87149-2
Barcode:	9780521871495

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