30.946, Books: Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Rosa

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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:29:18
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Rosa

 


Title: Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race 
Subtitle: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/looking-like-a-language-sounding-like-a-race-9780190634728?q=Looking%20like%20a%20Language%2C%20Sounding%20like%20a%20Race&lang=en&cc=us 


Author: Jonathan Rosa

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190634728 Pages: 308 Price: U.S. $ 99.00


Abstract:

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 Rican, 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. Rosa explores the ingenuity of
his research participants' responses to these forms of marginalization through
the contestation of political, ethnoracial, and linguistic borders.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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