In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña/Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges to signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. She analyzes their use of language as well as social and cultural practices such as the circulation of poetry, photographs, and drawings, and also their practices around makeup and bodily presentation. Through this detailed exploration, Homegirls examines the localized North-South rivalry between the bilingual, English-speaking and Americanized Norte girls and the Mexican or Latin-American-oriented, Spanish-speaking Sur girls. Mendoza-Denton uncovers a new dimension to studies of youth styles, where gang members are innovative not only in terms of dress, make-up, and music, but also by participating in crucial processes of language variation and change. This engrossing ethnographic and sociolinguistic book reveals the connection of language behavior and other symbolic practices among youth, and their connections to larger social processes of nationalism, racial/ethnic consciousness, and gender identity.
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"Homegirls should rock the very foundations of criminologicalunderstandings of gangs, especially concerning female gang members.If scientific rigor increases the book's impact, no one shouldbegrudge Mendoza-Denton the specialization of the latter chapters.In any case, this is a book about much more than language-orperhaps it reveals language to be much more than we think-and it iswell worth picking up for an enlightening glimpse of a populationthat has been ascribed infamy without being known much at al."(American Studies Journal, 1 March 2009)
"Homegirls, an experimental sociolinguistic ethnographyof subaltern others, spans a decade of research by a woman who iskeen to examine her position as an outsider/insider in the researchprocess and the identity formation of her participants: female gangmembers." (American Journal of Sociology, September2009)
"Part reflexive narrative, part engaging ethnography, partfine-grained sociolinguistic study, and part riveting disquisitionon the politics of eyeliner, this delightful book twinkles with witand blazes with empathy and intelligence."
Don Kulick, New York University
"Wonderfully written and as riveting as a novel,Homegirls provides a unique window on the linguistic andethnographic patterns - and their interrelationship -of Northern California Mexican-American high school students whoare members of girl gangs. It's sure to become aclassic."
Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University
"Mendoza-Denton provides an extraordinary fusion ofethnographic insight and sociolinguistic analysis. I know of nobetter demonstration of how linguistic and cultural variables areentwined in social interaction."
William Labov, University of Pennsylvania
"A landmark work in sociocultural linguistics! The breadth anddepth are spectacular and the humanistic presentation makes thedescription captivatingly accessible to both a professional and apublic audience."
Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University provides astunning and innovative linguistic, anthro-political ethnography ofhow gang-affiliated Latina girls talk, dress, and interact. It iscertain to become a classic in the fields of sociolinguistics andlinguistic anthropology."
Marjorie Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles
"Homegirls, an experimental sociolinguistic ethnographyof subaltern others, spans a decade of research by a woman who iskeen to examine her position as an outsider/insider in the researchprocess and the identity formation of her participants: female gangmembers." (American Journal of Sociology, September2009)
"Part reflexive narrative, part engaging ethnography, partfine-grained sociolinguistic study, and part riveting disquisitionon the politics of eyeliner, this delightful book twinkles with witand blazes with empathy and intelligence."
Don Kulick, New York University
"Wonderfully written and as riveting as a novel,Homegirls provides a unique window on the linguistic andethnographic patterns - and their interrelationship -of Northern California Mexican-American high school students whoare members of girl gangs. It's sure to become aclassic."
Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University
"Mendoza-Denton provides an extraordinary fusion ofethnographic insight and sociolinguistic analysis. I know of nobetter demonstration of how linguistic and cultural variables areentwined in social interaction."
William Labov, University of Pennsylvania
"A landmark work in sociocultural linguistics! The breadth anddepth are spectacular and the humanistic presentation makes thedescription captivatingly accessible to both a professional and apublic audience."
Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University provides astunning and innovative linguistic, anthro-political ethnography ofhow gang-affiliated Latina girls talk, dress, and interact. It iscertain to become a classic in the fields of sociolinguistics andlinguistic anthropology."
Marjorie Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles