Feeling It: Language, Race, And Affect In Latinx Youth Learning

Description: FFeeling It brings together twelve chapters from researchers in Chicanx studies, education, feminist studies, linguistics, and translation studies to offer a cohesive yet broad-ranging exploration of the issue of affect in the language and learning experiences of Latinx youth. Drawing on data from an innovative social justice-oriented university-community partnership based in young people's social agency and their linguistic and cultural expertise, the contributors are unified by their focus on a single year in the history of this partnership; their analytic focus on race, language, and affect in educational contexts; and their shared commitment to ethnography, discourse analysis, and qualitative methods, informed by participatory and social justice paradigms for research with youth of color. Designed specifically for use in courses, with theoretical framing by the co-editors and ethnographic contributions from leading and emergent scholars, this book is an important and timely resource on affect, race, and social justice in the United States. Thanks to its interdisciplinary grounding, Feeling It will be of interest to future teachers and to researchers and students in applied linguistics, education, and Latinx studies, as well as related fields such as anthropology, communication, social psychology, and sociology.

Contents: Chapter 1 You Feel Me?: Language and Youth Affective Agency in a Racializing World Mary Bucholtz, Dolores Ines Casillas, and Jin Sook Lee Part 1: Teaching, Learning, and the Affective Challenges of Social Justice Chapter 2 "Just" Emotions: The Politics of Racialized and Gendered Affect in a Graduate Sociolinguistic Justice Classroom Rachel Rys Chapter 3 Joint Creation: The Art of Accompaniment in the Language Beliefs of Transformative Teachers Elizabeth Mainz Chapter 4 Sounding White and Boring: Race, Identity, and Youth Freedom in an After-School Program Anna Bax and Juan Sebastian Ferrada Part 2: Ideologies of Race and Language in the Lives of Youth Chapter 5 "There's No Such Thing as Bad Language, but...": Colorblindness and Teachers' Ideologies of Linguistic Appropriateness Jessica Love-Nichols Chapter 6 "I Feel Like Really Racist for Laughing": White Laughter and White Public Space in a Multiracial Classroom Meghan Corella Chapter 7 "You Don't Look Like You Speak English": Raciolinguistic Profiling and Latinx Youth Agency Adanari Zarate Chapter 8 The Complexities in Seguir Avanzando: Incongruences between the Linguistic Ideologies of Students and Their Familias Zuleyma Nayeli Carruba-Rogel Part 3: Youth as Affective Agents Chapter 9 Keeping Grandpa's Stories and Grandma's Recipes Alive: Exploring Family Language Policy in an Academic Preparation Program Tijana Hirsch Chapter 10 "Without Me, That Wouldn't Be Possible": Affect in Latinx Youth Discussions of Language Brokering Audrey Lopez Chapter 11 "To Find the Right Words": Bilingual Students' Reflections on Translation and Translatability Katie Lateef-Jan Chapter 12 Co-Constructing Academic Concepts in Hybrid Learning Spaces: Latinx Students' Navigation of "Communities of Practice" Maria Jose Aragon Chapter 13 After Affects Mary Bucholtz, Dolores Ines Casillas, and Jin Sook Lee

Author Biography: Mary Bucholtz is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She was the founding director and is currently an associate director of SKILLS (School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society), UCSB's academic outreach, research, and social justice program. Dolores Ines Casillas is Associate Professor in Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an associate director of SKILLS. Jin Sook Lee is Professor of Education in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the current director of SKILLS.