[Linganth] race and language ethnographies

[Stephanie Feyne]

While this is not a book, I think this is a very accessible video on race,
language and ideologies.
And it's poetry.



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https://www.ted.com/talks/jamila_lyiscott_3_ways_to_speak_english?language=en

Jaminla Lyiscott - 3 Ways to Speak English





Stephanie Feyne



On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 6:34 AM, Auryte Cekuolyte <auryte.cekuolyte at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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