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White Kids

Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity
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In White Kids, Mary Bucholtz investigates how white teenagers use language to display identities based on race and youth culture. Focusing on three youth styles - preppies, hip hop fans, and nerds - Bucholtz shows how white youth use a wealth of linguistic resources, from social labels to slang, from Valley Girl speech to African American English, to position themselves in the school's racialized social order. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a multiracial urban California high school, the book also demonstrates how European American teenagers talk about race when discussing interracial friendship and difference, narrating racialized fear and conflict, and negotiating their own ethnoracial classification. The first book to use techniques of linguistic analysis to examine the construction of diverse white identities, it will be welcomed by researchers and students in linguistics, anthropology, ethnic studies and education.

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Mary Bucholtz is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Release date Australia
December 23rd, 2010
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  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
9 Tables, black and white; 14 Line drawings, black and white
Pages
290
Dimensions
154x228x14
ISBN-13
9780521692045
Product ID
8868181

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