Language across difference ethnicity, communication, and youth identities in changing urban schools / Django Paris.
| Author/creator | Paris, Django |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, |
| Description | xiii, 212 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. Beginnings: shouts of affirmation from South Vista -- 2. 'Spanish is becoming famous': youth perspectives on Spanish in a changing youth community -- 3. 'True Samoan': ethnic solidarity and linguistic reality -- 4. 'They're in my culture, they speak the same way': sharing African American language at South Vista Interlude: on oral language use, research, and teaching in multiethnic schools -- 5. 'You rep what you're from': texting identities in multiethnic youth space -- 6. Making school go: re-visioning school for pluralism -- Appendix: notes on methodology in cultural studies of language across difference. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-209) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011016715 |
| ISBN | 9780521193375 |
| ISBN | 0521193370 |
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