This book studies the relations between black and white adolescents
in an urban environment (South London); the processes by which
racism is relayed within adolescent communities, and the strategies
which subvert or encourage them. More specifically Hewitt examines
the sociolinguistic impact of the 'London Jamaican' creole used by
young black Londoners on the language and culture of young whites.
Basing his work on extensive fieldwork amongst racially mixed
groups in youth clubs, schools and 'street corner' contexts. Hewitt
is able to examine the way racial attitudes and cultural
allegiances are expressed in, and affected by, inter-racial
friendships.
White talk black talk is a uniquely ethnographic account which
places the use of black language forms in the speech of whites
firmly in its social and political setting: in integrating
disciplines in a creative way Hewitt sites a practical
sociolinguistic study within a much wider and systematic
sociological context of group interaction.
This study will be of special interest within sociolinguistics,
the sociology of race-relations and of youth culture, and urban
anthropology, but its rich and fascinating ethnographic detail will
also make it of interest to the non-specialist.
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