ISBN:
9780813329673
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (500 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Exposing Prejudice
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Urciuoli, Bonnie Exposing prejudice
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books
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New York
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Puerto Ricaner
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Sprache
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Soziale Situation
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Vorurteil
Abstract:
Puerto Ricans in the United States face an array of language judgments. Their linguistic differences are culturally objectified as "accents," "mixed" or "broken language," and "bad" versus "good" English. These objectifications are about a lot more than language. They represent a complex and highly politicized mapping of racial exclusion and class location. Through ethnographic studies and interviews done on New York's Lower East Side and in the Bronx, the author examines in detail the intersection of race, class, and language in the working-class Puerto Rican experience
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Semiotics of Exclusion; 1. Racialization and Language; 2. Visions of Disorder: How Puerto Ricans Became Racialized; 3. The Political Topography of Bilingualism; 4. Good English as Symbolic Capital; 5. The Race/Class/Language Map; Epilog; Appendix; References Cited; About the Book and the Author; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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