Library purchase through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center. La biblioteca recibio<U+0081> apoyo federal del Fondo de Iniciativas Latinas, administrado por el Centro Latino Smithsonian
Contents:
From "gangbangers and hoes" to "young Latino professionals": intersectional mobility and the ambivalent management of stigmatized student bodies -- "I heard that Mexicans are Hispanic and Puerto Ricans are Latino": ethnoracial contortions, diasporic imaginaries, and institutional trajectories -- "Latino flavors": emblematizing, embodying, and enacting Latinidad -- "They're bilingual...that means they don't know the language": the ideology of languagelessness in practice, policy, and theory -- "Pink cheese, green shosts, cool arrows/pinches gringos culeros": inverted Spanglish and Latinx raciolinguistic enregisterment -- "That doesn't count as a book, that's real life!": outlaw(ed) literacies, criminalized intertextualities, and institutional linkages
Summary:
Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in contemporary U.S. constructions of Latinidad. The book draws from long-term ethnographic research in a Chicago high school and its surrounding communities to analyze the creation and contestation of political, ethnoracial, and linguistic borders
