[Linganth] race and language ethnographies

[Auryte Cekuolyte]

The first book that springs to my mind is:

Bucholtz, M. 2011. White Kids. Language, Race and Styles of Youth Identity.

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Aurytė Čekuolytė
PhD student
Institute of the Lithuanian Language
Department of Sociolinguistics
http://www.sociolingvistika.lt/auryte-cekuolyte.htm


Jag har slarvat bort din adress
så jag sjunger min hälsning istället

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Roth Gordon, Jennifer F - (jenrothg) <
jenrothg at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would like to start up a new list of books on race and language and,
> simultaneously, send information on my own book that will be published in
> late May, 2016. Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness, and
> Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro draws on discourse analysis of the
> spontaneous, slang-filled conversations of shantytown youth and
> metalinguistic interview data collected from members of the middle class as
> they discussed the importance of standard Portuguese. I would love to
> answer questions from anyone who might be interested in using it in
> undergraduate courses... Please send me a private email, and I can send you
> more information. I will also happily compile a list of other suggestions
> of race and language ethnographies for the ling anth blog. Here's a quick
> blurb of the book:
>
> Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language
> in Rio de Janeiro
>
> Based on the spontaneous conversations of shantytown youth hanging out on
> the streets of their neighborhoods and interviews from the comfortable
> living rooms of the middle class, Race and the Brazilian Body asks how
> racial ideas about the superiority of whiteness and the inferiority of
> blackness continue to play out in the daily lives of Rio de Janeiro’s
> residents. This book draws on over 20 years of research to explain what is
> called Brazil’s “comfortable racial contradiction,” in which embedded
> structural racism that very visibly privileges whiteness exists alongside a
> deeply held pride in the country’s history of racial mixture and lack of
> overt racial conflict. This linguistic and ethnographic account describes
> how cariocas (people who live in Rio de Janeiro) carefully “read” the body
> for racial signs. The amount of whiteness or blackness a body displays is
> determined not only through observations of phenotypical features,
> including skin color, hair texture, and facial features, but also through
> careful attention paid to cultural and linguistic practices, including the
> use of nonstandard speech that is commonly described as slang. It is
> through adherence to implicit social norms that encourage individuals to
> display whiteness (by demonstrating a “good appearance”), to avoid
> blackness, and to “be cordial” (by not noticing racial differences), that
> Rio residents determine who belongs on the world famous beaches of
> Copacabana, Ipanema, and Leblon, who deserves to shop in privatized,
> carefully guarded, air conditioned shopping malls, and who merits the
> rights of citizenship. One’s ability to linguistically embody whiteness and
> distance oneself from blackness has become critical in a context where fear
> and vulnerability infuse what it now means to live in Rio de Janeiro,
> enduring daily life in an urban center with notoriously high levels of
> drugs, crime, and violence, where government officials and law enforcement
> are unable to protect city residents.
>
> I look forward to hearing other race and language ethnography suggestions!
>
>
> jen
>
> Jennifer Roth-Gordon
> Associate Professor
> School of Anthropology
> University of Arizona
> Tucson, AZ 85721-0030
>
> jenrothg at email.arizona.edu
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