Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs Contributor(s): Mendoza-Denton, Norma (Author) |
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ISBN: 1118910877 ISBN-13: 9781118910870 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $48.45 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: January 2014 |
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.
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