Language across Difference : Ethnicity, Communication, and Youth Identities in Changing Urban Schools.

Paris, Django.

Language across Difference : Ethnicity, Communication, and Youth Identities in Changing Urban Schools. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (228 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index.

Cover; Language across Difference; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Beginnings: shouts of affirmation from South Vista; DEVELOPING A HUMANIZING RESEARCH STANCE; THE NEED FOR INTERETHNIC LANGUAGE AND LITERACY RESEARCH IN US SCHOOLS; ON LANGUAGE SHARING, DEXTERITY, AND PLURALITY; THE PARADOX OF PLURALISM IN UNEQUAL SOCIETIES; INTRODUCING THE MULTIETHNIC YOUTH SPACE OF SOUTH VISTA; 2 "Spanish is becoming famous": youth perspectives on Spanish in a changing youth community; "IT'S OUR CULTURE, WE HAVE TO": SPANISH AS A TOOL OF SOLIDARITY AND EXCLUSION. "I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU": YOUTH STRIVING TO MAINTAIN SPANISH"THEY TALKING ABOUT US": MISTRUST AND SCHOOL FRIENDSHIPS; "I'M TRYING TO LEARN": SHARING IN SPANISH AT SOUTH VISTA; SHARING THE FUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE IN SCHOOLS; 3 "True Samoan": ethnic solidarity and linguistic reality; "BARELY": LATINO/A AND AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ON PACIFIC ISLANDER LANGUAGES; ELA AND HER LANGUAGE; HYPER-MARGINALIZED LANGUAGES IN SCHOOLS; SOLIDARITY AND EXCLUSION: ONLY HALF THE PARADOX; 4 "They're in my culture, they speak the same way": sharing African American Language at South Vista. AAL GRAMMAR, LEXICON, AND RITUAL INSULT AMONG BLACK YOUTHGrammar; Lexicon; Signifying and ritual insult; SHARING AAL AT SOUTH VISTA: GRAMMAR, LEXICON, AND RITUAL INSULT; Grammar; Lexicon; Signifying and ritual insult; "EVERYBODY SPEAKS THAT WAY": YOUTH UNDERSTANDINGS OF AAL SHARING; "THIS IS THE NEW MEANING": THE N-WORDS IN MULTIETHNIC CONTEXT; AAL AND EDUCATION IN MULTIETHNIC SCHOOLS; Interlude: on oral language use, research, and teaching in multiethnic schools; TEACHING WITHIN AND ACROSS DIFFERENCE; 5 "You rep what you're from": texting identities in multiethnic youth space. IDENTITY TEXTS AS AN ANALYTIC LENS"TRUE HAMOZ GURL FO LYPH": MAPPING CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY THROUGH WORN TEXTS; "WAS UP DIS CHELLE WAT U DOIN": AAL AND RESISTANCE IN DELIVERED TEXT; "A NEW ROOT": FLOWS IN SOUTH VISTA AND RAHUL'S TEXTUAL PLURALITY; JOINING THE WORK OF THE COUNTER-SCRIPTURAL ECONOMY; 6 Making school go: re-visioning school for pluralism; ROCHELLE AND THE SUNFLOWERS AGAIN; Appendix: Notes on methodology in cultural studies of language across difference; Notes; References; Index.

A window into ethnic and linguistic difference among Latino/a, African American and Pacific Islander youth in contemporary US schools.


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Language and languages--Study and teaching.
Multicultural education.
Sociolinguistics.
Langage et langues--Étude et enseignement.
Éducation interculturelle.
Sociolinguistique.
sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Sociolinguistics.
Language and languages--Study and teaching.
Multicultural education.
Sociolinguistics.


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