Negotiating Latina/o Ethnicity in NYC: Social Interactions and Ethnic Self-Presentation
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| contents | Negotiating Latina/o Ethnicity in NYC: Social Interactions and Ethnic Self-Presentation Rosalyn Negrón Goldbarg Wilneida Negrón Estudios Culturales os code Latina switching New York City Today, an increasing number of people regularly switch from ethnicity to ethnicity in normal discourse, in an attempt to maximize their economic and political interests. This paper focuses specifically on ethnic flexibility among Latina/os in New York City. Drawing on ethnographic, linguistic, and social network data we explore how Latina/os in NYC negotiate between multiple ethnic identities in everyday contexts. Through language and dialect switches, accents, and even calculated silence the Latinos in our research negotiated NYC's multi-level system of categorization. We hope to show that no one-to-one relationship exists between subjective feelings of ethnic belongingness and the use of ethnic markers. Ethnic markers, particularly language-related ones, are manipulated in a number of creative ways by members and non-members alike, pushing the limits of what constitutes ethnic group membership and challenging notions of ethnic authenticity. 2009 artículo científico 1600-0110 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=16212429003 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=162 Diálogos Latinoamericanos application/pdf Aarhus Universitet Diálogos Latinoamericanos (Dinamarca) Num.16 |
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| spellingShingle | Negotiating Latina/o Ethnicity in NYC: Social Interactions and Ethnic Self-Presentation Rosalyn Negrón Goldbarg Estudios Culturales os code Latina switching New York City Negotiating Latina/o Ethnicity in NYC: Social Interactions and Ethnic Self-Presentation Rosalyn Negrón Goldbarg Wilneida Negrón Estudios Culturales os code Latina switching New York City Today, an increasing number of people regularly switch from ethnicity to ethnicity in normal discourse, in an attempt to maximize their economic and political interests. This paper focuses specifically on ethnic flexibility among Latina/os in New York City. Drawing on ethnographic, linguistic, and social network data we explore how Latina/os in NYC negotiate between multiple ethnic identities in everyday contexts. Through language and dialect switches, accents, and even calculated silence the Latinos in our research negotiated NYC's multi-level system of categorization. We hope to show that no one-to-one relationship exists between subjective feelings of ethnic belongingness and the use of ethnic markers. Ethnic markers, particularly language-related ones, are manipulated in a number of creative ways by members and non-members alike, pushing the limits of what constitutes ethnic group membership and challenging notions of ethnic authenticity. 2009 artículo científico 1600-0110 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=16212429003 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=162 Diálogos Latinoamericanos application/pdf Aarhus Universitet Diálogos Latinoamericanos (Dinamarca) Num.16 |
| title | Negotiating Latina/o Ethnicity in NYC: Social Interactions and Ethnic Self-Presentation |
| topic | Estudios Culturales os code Latina switching New York City |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=16212429003 |