Empanadas, Pupusas, and Greens on the Side - Amelia Tseng

Empanadas, Pupusas, and Greens on the Side

Language and Latinidad in the Nation's Capital

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Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2025
Georgetown University Press (Verlag)
978-1-64712-590-5 (ISBN)
29,90 inkl. MwSt
A new framework for understanding how language and identity intersect in ever-evolving America

In the 1980s, Washington, DC—a predominantly African American, racially and economically segregated city with a strong local Black culture—became a hub of Latin American immigration. As the city's communities interacted, an identity both unique to DC and reflective of diverse Latin American cultures was born.

Empanadas, Pupusas, and Greens on the Side is the first linguistics book to explore how the Latinx community forged a new sense of home and identity in Washington. Using original ethnographic research—including interviews, narratives, and surveys—Tseng develops a new framework for understanding the relationship between race, identity, language, and culture, and she explains what happens when communities interact.

Readers interested in the cultural history of Washington, Latinx history, and language and society will enjoy this rich study of language as a cross-cultural current in ever-evolving America.

Amelia Tseng is assistant professor of linguistics and Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Spanish at American University, where she is also and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies. She coedited Bilingualism for All? Raciolinguistic Perspectives on Dual Language Education in the United States, with Nelson Flores and Nicholas Subtirelu (2020).

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 20 Tables, unspecified; 3 Figures; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort Washington, DC
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-64712-590-1 / 1647125901
ISBN-13 978-1-64712-590-5 / 9781647125905
Zustand Neuware
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