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Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs
Contributor(s): Mendoza-Denton, Norma (Author)
ISBN: 1118910877     ISBN-13: 9781118910870
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $48.45  
Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats
Published: January 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies
- Social Science | Children's Studies
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics
Dewey: 401.41
Series: New Directions in Ethnography
Physical Information: 360 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic
- Cultural Region - Northern California
- Ethnic Orientation - Latino
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:
In this ground-breaking new book on the Norte a and Sure a (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 affiliations and ideologies. Her engrossing ethnographic and sociolinguistic study reveals the connection of language behavior and other symbolic practices among Latina gang girls in California, and their connections to larger social processes of nationalism, racial/ethnic consciousness, and gender identity.

  • An engrossing account of the Norte and Sur girl gangs - the largest Latino gangs in California
  • Traces how elements of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges are used to signal social affiliation and come together to form youth gang styles
  • Explores the relationship between language and the body: one of the most striking aspects of the tattoos, make-up, and clothing of the gang members
  • Unlike other studies - which focus on violence, fighting and drugs - Mendoza-Denton delves into the commonly-overlooked cultural and linguistic aspects of youth gangs