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Book SynopsisRaciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race. This team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-shares powerful, much-needed research to help us understand the increasingly vexed relationships between race, ethnicity, and language in our rapidly changing world.
Trade ReviewAlim, Rickford and Ball have assembled an excellent set of essays that challenge the way we construct social reality. The combined force of the book is more than academic. It is a call for action in the political realm and in our personal interactions ... The book admirably introduces readers to a new field of inquiry and opens up vistas for potential future research on the questions it raises. * Larry L. LaFond, Linguist *
All the authors were adept at portraying the linguistic landscape related to race, challenging assumptions about connections between race and language, and at providing new intellectual contributions regarding raciolinguistics. They help us understand the increasing complexities of a changing world, and to envision how to make that world a more hospitable place for all. * Larry L. LaFond, Linguist *
Though taking differing approaches, the essays work together toward the same goal, which is to explore the complex relationships between language and race. Discussion of contemporary topics such as rap and hip-hop music, new media, and reality television will appeal to college students (of traditional age), and the writing style throughout the book is relatively approachable. This book is particularly valuable given the transition from Barack Obamas administration to that of Donald Trump, since presidential policies affect not only the US but also the rest of the world. * K. C. Williams, Choice *
Table of ContentsNEW: Preface to the Paperback Edition: Language, Race, and the Academy: Building Intellectual Community beyond the Confines of Our Institutional Constraints H. Samy Alim Introducing Raciolinguistics: Racing Language and Languaging Race in Hyperracial Times H. Samy Alim, University of California, Los Angeles 1. Who's Afraid of the Transracial Subject?: Raciolinguistics and the Political Project of Transracialization H. Samy Alim, University of California, Los Angeles 2. From Upstanding Citizen to North American Rapper and Back Again: The Racial Malleability of Poor Male Brazilian Youth Jennifer Roth-Gordon, University of Arizona 3. From Mock Spanish to Inverted Spanglish: Language Ideologies and the Racialization of Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth in the United States Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University 4. The Meaning of Chin- Chong: Language, Racism, and Response in New Media Elaine W. Chun, University of South Carolina 5. "Suddenly faced with a Chinese Village": The Linguistic Racialization of Asian Americans Adrienne Lo, University of Waterloo 6. Ethnicity and Extreme Locality in South Africa's Multilingual Hip Hop Ciphas Quentin E. Williams, University of the Western Cape 7. Norteño and Sureño Gangs, Hip Hop, and Ethnicity on YouTube: Localism in California through Spanish Accent Variation Norma Mendoza-Denton, University of California, Los Angeles Part II. Racing Language 8. Toward Heterogeneity: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on the Classification of Black People in the Twenty-First Century Renée Blake, New York University 9. Jews of Color: Performing Black Jewishness through the Creative Use of Two Ethnolinguistic Repertoires Sarah Bunin Benor, Hebrew Union College 10. Pharyngeal Beauty and Depharyngealized Geek: Performing Ethnicity on Israeli Reality TV Roey Gafter, Tel Aviv University 11. Stance as a Window into the Language-Race Connection: Evidence from African American and White Speakers in Washington, D.C. Robert J. Podesva, Stanford University 12. Changing Ethnicities: The Evolving Speech Styles of Punjabi Londoners Devyani Sharma, Queen Mary, University of London Part III. Language, Race, and Education in Changing Communities 13. "It Was a Black City": African American Language in California's Changing Urban Schools and Communities Django Paris, Michigan State University 14. Zapotec, Mixtec, and Purepecha Youth: Multilingualism and the Marginalization of Indigenous Immigrants in the United States William Perez, Claremont Graduate University; Rafael Vasquez, Universidad Autonóma; and Raymond Burie, Pomona College 15. On Being Called Out of One's Name: Indexical Bleaching as a Technique of Deracialization Mary Bucholtz, University of California, Santa Barbara 16. Multiculturalism and Its Discontents: Essentializing Ethnic Moroccan and Roma Identities in Classroom Discourse in Spain Inmaculada García-Sánchez, University of California, Los Angeles 17. The Voicing of Asian American Figures: Korean Linguistic Styles at an Asian American Cram School Angela Reyes, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY 18. "Socials," "Poch@s," "Normals" y los demás: School Networks and Linguistic Capital of High School Students on the Tijuana-San Diego Border" Ana Celia Zentella, University of California, San Diego 19. NEW: Sorry to Bother You: Deepening the Political Project of Raciolinguistics H.Samy Alim, University of California, Los Angeles Index
