NEW: Preface to the Paperback Edition: Language, Race, and the
Academy: Building Intellectual Community beyond the Confines of Our
Institutional Constraints
H. Samy Alim
Introducing Raciolinguistics: Racing Language and Languaging Race
in Hyperracial Times
H. Samy Alim, University of California, Los Angeles
1. Who's Afraid of the Transracial Subject?: Raciolinguistics and
the Political Project of Transracialization
H. Samy Alim, University of California, Los Angeles
2. From Upstanding Citizen to North American Rapper and Back Again:
The Racial Malleability of Poor Male Brazilian Youth
Jennifer Roth-Gordon, University of Arizona
3. From Mock Spanish to Inverted Spanglish: Language Ideologies and
the Racialization of Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth in the United
States
Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University
4. The Meaning of Chin- Chong: Language, Racism, and Response in
New Media
Elaine W. Chun, University of South Carolina
5. "Suddenly faced with a Chinese Village": The Linguistic
Racialization of Asian Americans
Adrienne Lo, University of Waterloo
6. Ethnicity and Extreme Locality in South Africa's Multilingual
Hip Hop Ciphas
Quentin E. Williams, University of the Western Cape
7. Norteño and Sureño Gangs, Hip Hop, and Ethnicity on YouTube:
Localism in California through Spanish Accent Variation
Norma Mendoza-Denton, University of California, Los Angeles
Part II. Racing Language
8. Toward Heterogeneity: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on the
Classification of Black People in the Twenty-First Century
Renée Blake, New York University
9. Jews of Color: Performing Black Jewishness through the Creative
Use of Two Ethnolinguistic Repertoires
Sarah Bunin Benor, Hebrew Union College
10. Pharyngeal Beauty and Depharyngealized Geek: Performing
Ethnicity on Israeli Reality TV
Roey Gafter, Tel Aviv University
11. Stance as a Window into the Language-Race Connection: Evidence
from African American and White Speakers in Washington, D.C.
Robert J. Podesva, Stanford University
12. Changing Ethnicities: The Evolving Speech Styles of Punjabi
Londoners
Devyani Sharma, Queen Mary, University of London
Part III. Language, Race, and Education in Changing Communities
13. "It Was a Black City": African American Language in
California's Changing Urban Schools and Communities
Django Paris, Michigan State University
14. Zapotec, Mixtec, and Purepecha Youth: Multilingualism and the
Marginalization of Indigenous Immigrants in the United States
William Perez, Claremont Graduate University; Rafael Vasquez,
Universidad Autonóma; and Raymond Burie, Pomona College
15. On Being Called Out of One's Name: Indexical Bleaching as a
Technique of Deracialization
Mary Bucholtz, University of California, Santa Barbara
16. Multiculturalism and Its Discontents: Essentializing Ethnic
Moroccan and Roma Identities in Classroom Discourse in Spain
Inmaculada García-Sánchez, University of California, Los
Angeles
17. The Voicing of Asian American Figures: Korean Linguistic Styles
at an Asian American Cram School
Angela Reyes, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
18. "Socials," "Poch@s," "Normals" y los demás: School Networks and
Linguistic Capital of High School Students on the Tijuana-San Diego
Border"
Ana Celia Zentella, University of California, San Diego
19. NEW: Sorry to Bother You: Deepening the Political Project
of
Raciolinguistics
H.Samy Alim, University of California, Los Angeles
Index
H. Samy Alim is Professor of Education and, by courtesy,
Anthropology and Linguistics at Stanford University, where he
directs the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Language (CREAL), the
Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA), and African & African
American Studies (AAAS). His most recent book, Articulate While
Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S. (2012, with
Geneva Smitherman), addresses language and racial
politics through an examination of President Barack Obama's
language use-and America's response to it. Other books include
Street Conscious Rap (1999), You Know My Steez (2004), Roc the Mic
Right (2006), Tha Global Cipha (2006), Talkin Black
Talk (2007), and Global Linguistic Flows (2009). His forthcoming
volume, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies, will appear in 2017 (with
Django Paris, Teachers College Press).
John R. Rickford is the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of
Linguistics and the Humanities at Stanford University and the
current President of the Linguistic Society of America. His most
recent books include Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
(co-authored, 2000, winner of an American Book Award), Style and
Sociolinguistic Variation (co-edited, 2001), Language in the USA:
Themes for the Twenty-First Century (co-edited, 2004), Language,
Culture
and Caribbean Identity (co-edited, 2012) and African American,
Creole and Other Vernacular Englishes: A Bibliographic Resource
(co-authored, 2012).
Arnetha F. Ball is a Professor in the Stanford Graduate School of
Education and former President of the American Educational Research
Association. She is author of Multicultural Strategies for
Education and Social Change: Carriers of the Torch in the U.S. and
South Africa (2006) and co-editor of several volumes including
Bahktinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning (2004),
African American Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular English and
Composition Classroom (2005), the NSSE volume With More Deliberate
Speed (2006) and Studying Diversity in Teacher Education (2011).
"Raciolinguistics is an essential, must-read for scholars of race,
ethnicity, and culture. Building upon Alim & Smitherman's
groundbreaking Articulate While Black, Alim et al. continue the
paradigm shift in linguistics to 'race language' and 'language
race.' The brilliant, and most important, thing about this book is
that it presents illuminating, path-breaking analyses that remind
us that we ignore the critical role of language at our
own peril. Raciolinguistics will undoubtedly become an
indispensible contribution to all fields interested in race and
ethnicity-and to the broader conversation on race in these
'hyperracial' times." --Michael Eric Dyson,
University Distinguished Professor of Sociology, and author of
Debating Race
"This book represents a raciolinguistic revolution by boldly,
brilliantly, and unapologetically demonstrating the inextricability
of language and race in all domains of social life, from politics
and education to media and popular culture. Alim et. al. have
produced a cutting-edge collection of rigorous scholarship
representing a quantum leap forward in theorizing language and race
in sociolinguistics and race/ethnic studies. Whereas "race" has
traditionally
been forwarded as a 'social construction,' Raciolinguistics makes
it plain that this "social construction" is a sociolinguistic one.
This book is both a necessary intervention and a
ground-breaking
intellectual contribution." --Geneva Smitherman, University
Distinguished Professor Emerita, Michigan State University
"Raciolinguistics boldly challenges long-held beliefs about the
nature of race and language-and their interconnectedness. By
'racing language' and 'languaging race,' the authors invite new
perspectives, challenge orthodoxy, and push all of us to expand our
analyses of the social world. Given its global, international
reach, this is an agenda-setting book. It not only offers an
epistemic rupture from traditional studies of language and race,
but it also
provides a critically important and much-needed research base for
language and education policy makers struggling to create more
inclusive, democratic, and just societies in the U.S. and
elsewhere." --Gloria
Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Distinguished Professor in Urban
Education, University of Wisconsin
"The collection offers a broad range of topics and perspectives,
Western and non-Western. The essays are grouped in three sections:
the first focuses on linguistic research, the second looks at race
in conjunction with social and political context, and the third
addresses race and language in educational settings. Though taking
differing approaches, the essays work together toward the same
goal, which is to explore the complex relationships between
language and
race. Discussion of contemporary topics such as rap and hip-hop
music, new media, and reality television will appeal to college
students (of traditional age), and the writing style throughout the
book
is relatively approachable. This book is particularly valuable
given the transition from Barack Obama's administration to that of
Donald Trump, since presidential policies affect not only the US
but also the rest of the world."--Choice
"Alim, Rickford and Ball have assembled an excellent set of essays
that challenge the way we construct social reality. The combined
force of the book is more than academic. It is a call for action in
the political realm and in our personal interactions. There does
not appear to be a specific audience for this book (scholars,
undergraduates, general public, etc.), but rather the book seems to
be intended for anyone who is interested in thinking more deeply
about
the interplay of race and language. The chapters are nearly
uniformly coherent, well written, and pleasurable to read; they are
scholarly, yet accessible. It is not hard to imagine this as a
text
supporting general courses in sociolinguistics or more specialized
courses related to race and language. The book admirably introduces
readers to a new field of inquiry and opens up vistas for potential
future research on the questions it raises." --Linguist List
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