Raciolinguistics

Abstract

Abstract Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of leading scholars—working both within and beyond the United States—to share research that helps us understand the increasingly vexed relationships between race, ethnicity, and language. Combining the innovative, cutting-edge approaches of race and ethnic studies with fine-grained linguistic analyses, chapters cover a wide range of topics, including the language use of African American Jews and the struggle over the very term “African American,” racialized language education debates within “majority-minority” immigrant communities as well as indigenous communities in the United States, the dangers of multicultural education in a Europe that is struggling to meet the needs of new migrants, and the sociopolitical and cultural meanings of linguistic styles used in Brazilian favelas, South African townships, Israeli neighborhoods, Mexican and Puerto Rican barrios in Chicago, and Korean American “cram schools.”In examining changing demographics in the United States—such as population resegregation, Asian and Latino patterns of immigration, and new African American (im)migration patterns, along with changing global cultural and media trends (like Hip Hop and social media), Raciolinguistics shapes the future of studies on race, ethnicity, and language. By taking a comparative look across a diverse range of language and literacy contexts, the volume seeks not only to set the research agenda in this burgeoning area but also to help resolve pressing educational and political problems in some of the most contested raciolinguistic contexts in the world.

The authors' abstract, as published at the source. Oxford University Press eBooks, 2016 · DOI ↗