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Homegirls : language and cultural practice among Latina youth gangs /

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In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña and Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affilia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mendoza-Denton, Norma (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., [2008]
Series:New directions in ethnography ; 2.
Subjects:
Youth > Language.
Latin Americans > Languages.
Teenage girls > Language.
Sociolinguistics.
Language and culture.
Hispanic American teenage girls > Languages.
Hispanic American gangs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • La Migra
  • Beginning fieldwork
  • Norte and sur : government, school, and research perspectives
  • Hemispheric localism : language, racialized nationalism, and the politicization of youth
  • Muy macha : gendered performances and the avoidance of social injury
  • Smile now cry later : memorializing practices linking language, materiality and embodiment
  • Icons and exemplars : ethnographic approaches in variationist sociolinguistics
  • Variation in a community of practice
  • That's the whole thing [tin]! : discourse markers and teenage speech