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White Kids: Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity
Mary Bucholtz
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Description for White Kids: Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity
paperback. The first book to use techniques of linguistic analysis to examine the construction of diverse white identities. Num Pages: 290 pages, 14 b/w illus. 9 tables. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 482.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521692045
SKU
V9780521692045
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About Mary Bucholtz
Mary Bucholtz is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Reviews for White Kids: Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity
'White Kids, poignant, funny, and timely, shows us how adolescents work on identities in a racialized world with immense depth and precision.' Jane H. Hill, Regents' Professor (Emerita), University of Arizona 'A hugely anticipated book from one of the most articulate voices in 21st century sociolinguistics. Full of compelling evidence for how attention to language and social interaction can tell ... Read more