White Kids: Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity eBook

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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.

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White Kids: Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity is written by Mary Bucholtz and published by Cambridge University Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for White Kids are 9780511924408, 0511924402 and the print ISBNs are 9780521871495, 0521871492.