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Author Bucholtz, Mary, 1966-

Title White kids : language, race and styles of youth identity / Mary Bucholtz
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages) : illustrations
Contents White styles : language, race, and youth identities -- Listening to whiteness : researching language and race in a California high school -- Cliques, crowds, and crews : social labels in racial space -- Say word? : race and style in white teenage slang -- I'm like yeah but she's all no : innovative quotative markers and preppy whiteness -- Pretty fly for a white guy : European American hip hop fans and African American English -- We're through being cool : white nerds, superstandard English, and the rejection of trendiness -- "Not that I'm racist" : strategies of colorblindness in talk about race and friendship -- White on black : narratives of racial fear and resentment -- "I guess I'm white" : ethnoracial labels and the problem of whiteness -- Audible whiteness
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and index
Notes English
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Subject Teenagers -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Language
Youth, White -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Language
Language and culture -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
White people -- Race identity -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
Language and culture
Teenagers -- Language
White people -- Race identity
Identität
Jugendsprache
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Kalifornien
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511933486
0511933487
9780511930782
051193078X
9780511928253
0511928254
9780511975776
0511975775
0511925743
9780511925740
1282930834
9781282930834
9786612930836
6612930837
Other Titles Language, race and styles of youth identity