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Zusatztext This is the book that scholars of language, Latinx studies and comparative racial studies have been waiting for. It is an essential volume for understanding the co-naturalization of language and race and the key role language plays in the racialization of Latinx youth. Rosas raciolinguistic approach provides a welcomed pathway for understanding, and transforming, systems of domination and should serve as model for all linguistic analyses. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Vorwort Winner of the 2020 AAAL First Book Award Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Making Latinx Identities and Managing American Anxieties Part I: Looking like a Language: Latinx Ethnoracial Category-Making Chapter 1: From "Gangbangers and Hoes" to "Young Latino Professionals": Intersectional Mobility and the Ambivalent Management of Stigmatized Student Bodies Chapter 2: "I heard that Mexicans are Hispanic and Puerto Ricans are Latino": Ethnoracial Contortions, Diasporic Imaginaries, and Institutional Trajectories Chapter 3: "Latino flavors": Emblematizing, Embodying, and Enacting Latinidad Part II: Sounding like a Race: Latinx Raciolinguistic Enregisterment Chapter 4:"They're bilingual that means they don't know the language": The Ideology of Languagelessness in Practice, Policy, and Theory Chapter 5:"Pink Cheese, Green Ghosts, Cool Arrows/Pinches Gringos Culeros": Inverted Spanglish and Latinx Raciolinguistic Enregisterment Chapter 6:"That doesn't c...
