Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs (New Directions in Ethnography) by Norma Mendoza-Denton | 9780631234906 | Get Textbooks | New Textbooks | Used Textbooks

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		Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs (New Directions in Ethnography) by Norma Mendoza-Denton ISBN-10: 9780631234906 ISBN-10: 0-631-23490-X ISBN-13: 9780631234906 ISBN-13: 978-0-631-23490-6 Paperback 2008-01-09 Wiley-Blackwell Find Lowest Price
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Product Description In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña and Sureña (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
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homegirls! Wonderful book that provides both an ethnographic as well as scientific approaches to the language and cultural practices of Latina girls.
Quite enjoyable! This book is actually quite enjoyable, given that it's an anthropology book. I had to read this for a class and me and several other students had a fine time readinb the book. It's informative without it being too wordy.

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