Language across Difference
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Language across Difference

Ethnicity, Communication, and Youth Identities in Changing Urban Schools

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Language across Difference

Ethnicity, Communication, and Youth Identities in Changing Urban Schools

About this book

Once a predominantly African-American city, South Vista opened the twenty-first century with a large Latino/a majority and a significant population of Pacific Islanders. Using an innovative blend of critical ethnography and social language methodologies, Paris offers the voices and experiences of South Vista youth as a window into how today's young people challenge and reinforce ethnic and linguistic difference in demographically changing urban schools and communities. The ways African-American language, Spanish and Samoan are used within and across ethnicity in social and academic interactions, text messages and youth-authored rap lyrics show urban young people enacting both new and old visions of pluralist cultural spaces. Paris illustrates how understanding youth communication, ethnicity and identities in changing urban landscapes like South Vista offers crucial avenues for researchers and educators to push for more equitable schools and a more equitable society.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Language across Difference
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Figures
  7. Tables
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Beginnings: shouts of affirmation from South Vista
  10. 2 “Spanish is becoming famous”: youth perspectives on Spanish in a changing youth community
  11. 3 “True Samoan”: ethnic solidarity and linguistic reality
  12. 4 “They’re in my culture, they speak the same way”: sharing African American Language at South Vista
  13. Interlude: on oral language use, research, and teaching in multiethnic schools
  14. 5 “You rep what you’re from”: texting identities in multiethnic youth space
  15. 6 Making school go: re-visioning school for pluralism
  16. Appendix: Notes on methodology in cultural studies of language across difference
  17. Notes
  18. References
  19. Index