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Language across difference : ethnicity, communication, and youth identities in changing urban schools /

"Once a predominantly African American city, South Vista opened the twenty-first century with a large Latino/a majority and a significant population of Pacific Islanders. Using an innovative blend of critical ethnography and social language methodologies, Paris offers the voices and experiences...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paris, Django
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Beginnings: shouts of affirmation from South Vista
  • 2. 'Spanish is becoming famous': youth perspectives on Spanish in a changing youth community
  • 3. 'True Samoan': ethnic solidarity and linguistic reality
  • 4. 'They're in my culture, they speak the same way': sharing African American language at South Vista Interlude: on oral language use, research, and teaching in multiethnic schools
  • 5. 'You rep what you're from': texting identities in multiethnic youth space
  • 6. Making school go: re-visioning school for pluralism
  • Appendix: notes on methodology in cultural studies of language across difference.