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Raciolinguistics
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Raciolinguistics
HOW LANGUAGE SHAPES OUR IDEAS ABOUT RACE
EDITED BY H. SAMY ALIM, JOHN R. RICKFORD
and
ARNETHA F. BALL
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Names: Alim, H. Samy, editor. | Rickford, John R., 1949– editor. | Ball, Arnetha F., 1950– editor.
Title: Raciolinguistics : how language shapes our ideas about race /
edited by H. Samy Alim, John R. Rickford & Arnetha F. Ball.
Description: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016] | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016018924| ISBN 9780190625696 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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Contents
Introducing Raciolinguistics: Racing Language and Languaging
Race in Hyperracial Times 1
H. Samy alim, Stanford University
Part I LANGUAGING RACE
1. Who’s Afraid of the Transracial Subject?: Raciolinguistics and the
Political Project of Transracialization 33
H. Samy alim, Stanford University
2. From Upstanding Citizen to North American Rapper and Back
Again: The Racial Malleability of Poor Male Brazilian Youth 51
Jennifer rotH-G ordon, 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 65
JonatHan r oSa, Stanford University
4. The Meaning of Ching- Chong: Language, Racism, and Response in
New Media 81
elaine W. CHun, University of South Carolina
5. “Suddenly Faced with a Chinese Village”: The Linguistic
Racialization of Asian Americans 97
adrienne lo, University of Waterloo
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6. Ethnicity and Extreme Locality in South Africa’s Multilingual Hip
Hop Ciphas 113
Quentin e. William S, University of the Western Cape
7. Norteño and Sureño Gangs, Hip Hop, and Ethnicity on
YouTube: Localism in California through Spanish Accent
Variation 135
norma mendoza- d enton, University of Arizona
Part II RACING LANGUAGE
8. Toward Heterogeneity: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on the
Classification of Black People in the Twenty-F irst Century 153
renée Blake, New York University
9. Jews of Color: Performing Black Jewishness through the Creative
Use of Two Ethnolinguistic Repertoires 171
SaraH Bunin Benor, Hebrew Union College
10. Pharyngeal Beauty and Depharyngealized Geek: Performing
Ethnicity on Israeli Reality TV 185
roey Gafter, Tel Aviv University
11. Stance as a Window into the Language-R ace Connection:
Evidence from African American and White Speakers in
Washington, DC 203
roBert J. PodeSva, Stanford University
12. Changing Ethnicities: The Evolving Speech Styles of Punjabi
Londoners 221
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 241
dJanGo PariS, Michigan State University
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14. Zapotec, Mixtec, and Purepecha Youth: Multilingualism
and the Marginalization of Indigenous Immigrants in the
United States 255
William Perez, Claremont Graduate University; rafael v aSQuez,
Universidad Autonóma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca; and raymond
Buriel, Pomona College
15. On Being Called Out of One’s Name: Indexical Bleaching as a
Technique of Deracialization 273
mary BuCHoltz, University of California, Santa Barbara
16. Multiculturalism and Its Discontents: Essentializing Ethnic
Moroccan and Roma Identities in Classroom Discourse
in Spain 291
inmaCulada m. Gar Cía- SánCHez, Temple University
17. The Voicing of Asian American Figures: Korean Linguistic Styles
at an Asian American Cram School 309
anGela reye S, 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 327
ana Celia zentella, University of California, San Diego
Index 347
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