Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race - Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad

Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in contemporary U.S. constructions of Latinidad. The book draws from long-term ethnographic research in a Chicago high school and its surrounding communities to analyze the creation and contestation of political, ethnoracial, and linguistic borders.

About the author

Jonathan Rosa is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and, by courtesy, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics, at Stanford University. His research analyzes the interplay between racial marginalization, linguistic stigmatization, and educational inequity. Rosa's work has appeared in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Educational Review, American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, as well as media outlets such as MSNBC, NPR, CNN, and Univision.

Summary

Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in contemporary U.S. constructions of Latinidad. The book draws from long-term ethnographic research in a Chicago high school and its surrounding communities to analyze the creation and contestation of political, ethnoracial, and linguistic borders.

Foreword

Winner of the 2020 AAAL First Book Award

Additional text

Jonathan Rosa's Looking like a language, sounding like a race: Raciolinguistic ideologies and the learning of Latinidad might be one of the most powerful books written on race and language of the past few decades, which I do not state with any intended hyperbole, but in a matter-of-fact consideration of how the book ambitiously accomplishes what it sets out to do.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Rosa, Jonathan (Assistant Professor of Anthropolog Rosa
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780190634728
• ISBN: 978-0-19-063472-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language; Oxf Studies in Anthropology of; Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language; Oxf Studies in Anthropology of
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociolinguistics, Social & cultural anthropology, Social and cultural anthropology