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9780521193375

Language across Difference: Ethnicity, Communication, and Youth Identities in Changing Urban Schools

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    9780521193375

  • ISBN10:

    0521193370

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-09-26
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Django Paris is Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy in the College of Education at Michigan State University.

Table of Contents

List of figuresp. viii
List of tablesp. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. x
Beginnings: shoutsof affirmation from South Vistap. 1
"Spanish is becoming famous": youth perspectives on Spanish in a changing youth communityp. 24
"True Samoan": ethnic solidarity and linguistic realityp. 56
"They're in my culture, they speak the same way": sharing African American Language at South Vistap. 81
Interlude: on oral language use, research, and teaching in multiethnic schoolsp. 119
"You rep what you're from": texting identities in multiethnic youth spacep. 126
Making school go: re-visioning school for pluralismp. 163
Appendix: Notes on methodology in cultural studies of language across differencep. 175
Notesp. 185
Referencesp. 201
Indexp. 210
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