Raciolinguistics

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).

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

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