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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 Rica, 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. Though seemingly well-intentioned, the result for these youths is often an inauthentic, conflicted identity. Rosa explores the ingenuity of his research participants' responses to these forms of marginalization through the contestation of political, ethnoracial, and linguistic borders.
Table des matières
- 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 count as a book, that's real life!": Outlaw(ed) Literacies, Criminalized Intertextualities, and Institutional Linkages
- Conclusion: Hearing Limits, Voicing Possibilities
- References
A propos de l'auteur
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.
Résumé
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.
Préface
Winner of the 2020 AAAL First Book Award
Texte suppl.
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.
