 Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs
ISBN: 978-0-631-23490-6
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360 pages
January 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Tables.
Acknowledgments.
Acknowledgment of Sources.
Introduction.
1. La Migra.
2. Beginning Fieldwork.
3. Norte and Sur: Government, School, and Research Perspectives.
4. Hemispheric Localism: Language, Racialized Nationalism, and the Politicization of Youth.
5. ‘Muy Macha’: Gendered Performances and the Avoidance of Social Injury.
6. Smile Now Cry Later: Memorializing Practices Linking Language, Materiality, And Embodiment.
7. Icons and Exemplars: Ethnographic Approaches in Variationist Sociolinguistics.
8. Variation in a Community of Practice.
9. ‘That's the whole thing [t5iN]!’: Discourse Markers and Teenage Speech.
10. Conclusion.
References.
Appendix.
Index
