Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth GangsISBN: 978-0-631-23490-6
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368 pages
January 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Figures viii
List of Tables x
Acknowledgments xi
Acknowledgment of Sources xiv
Introduction 1
1 La Migra 10
2 Beginning Fieldwork 42
3 Norte and Sur: Government, School, and Research Perspectives 76
4 Hemispheric Localism: Language, Racialized Nationalism, and the Politicization of Youth 101
5 "Muy Macha": Gendered Performances and the Avoidance of Social Injury 148
6 Smile Now Cry Later: Memorializing Practices Linking Language, Materiality, and Embodiment 176
7 Icons and Exemplars: Ethnographic Approaches in Variationist Sociolinguistics 207
8 Variation in a Community of Practice 230
9 "That's the Whole Thing [tin]!": Discourse Markers and Teenage Speech 265
10 Conclusion 292
References 297
Appendix 324
Index 328