Racialization and language : interdisciplinary perspectives from Peru /

Drawing on frameworks from applied linguistics and critical discourse analysis, this volume employs a linguistics approach to understanding race and racism in Latin America, with a particular focus on the case of Peru. Building on recent debates in Peru on cultural and biological definitions of race...

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Other Authors: Back, Michele (Editor), Zavala, Virginia (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2019]
Series:Routledge studies in sociolinguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • The production of racialized discourses: an introduction / Michele Back and Virginia Zavala
  • "We are a distinct race that can accomplish everything": entrepreneurship, education, and new racial concepts in neoliberal Peru / Leonor Lamas
  • Racism and social interaction in a southern Peruvian combi / Margarita Huayhua
  • Processes of racialization after political violence: the discourse of marginality in the community of Chapi, Ayacucho / Nathalie Koc-Menard
  • Language ideologies and racialization: a study of secondary students in Lima / Ylse Mesía
  • From racism to racialization: arguments on inequality in Peru / Víctor Vich and Virginia Zavala
  • Negotiations of Peruvian identity: Magaly Solier and the Andean woman / Eunice Cortez
  • Amixer detected!: identities and racism in Peruvian cyberspace / Roberto Brañez-Medina
  • Race and linguistic essentialism on Peruvian twitter / Michele Back
  • Racist practices in virtual democracy: constructing the "ppkausa" on Facebook / Isabel C. Wong-Fupuy
  • Afterword: racialization processes and geopolitical epistemologies / Mariana Achugar.