Mary Bucholtz (Santa Barbara University of California)

White Kids

Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

White Kids investigates how white teenagers use language to display identities based on race and youth culture. The first book to use techniques of linguistic analysis to examine the construction of diverse white identities, it will be welcomed by researchers and students in linguistics, anthropology, ethnic studies and education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780521692045
• ISBN-10: 0521692040
• Artikelnr.: 31192957

Autorenporträt

Mary Bucholtz is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Inhaltsangabe

1. White styles: language, race, and youth identities; 2. Listening to whiteness: researching language and race in a California high school; 3. Cliques, crowds, and crews: social labels in racial space; 4. Say word?: Race and style in white teenage slang; 5. I'm like yeah but she's all no: innovative quotative markers and preppy whiteness; 6. Pretty fly for a white guy: European American hip hop fans and African American English; 7. We're through being cool: white nerds, superstandard English, and the rejection of trendiness; 8. 'Not that I'm racist': strategies of colorblindness in talk about race and friendship; 9. White on black: narratives of fear and resentment; 10. 'I guess I'm white': ethnoracial labels and the problem of whiteness; 11. Conclusion: audible whiteness.

Rezensionen

'White Kids, poignant, funny, and timely, shows us how adolescents work on identities in a racialized world with immense depth and precision.' Jane H. Hill, Regents' Professor (Emerita), University of Arizona