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Her Heart Is At Home: A Journey Into Three Generations Of Diaspora, Meghan Weston
Her Heart Is At Home: A Journey Into Three Generations Of Diaspora, Meghan Weston
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
This project discusses the concept of diaspora through a series of poems and analytical essays. The writing included in this project covers three generations of diaspora and includes discussions of White Guilt, White Passing, identity confusion, language barriers, and ethnic generation gaps.
Boletín V.24 (2019), Fordham University Latin American And Latino Studies Institute
Boletín V.24 (2019), Fordham University Latin American And Latino Studies Institute
Boletín (Fordham University. Latin American and Latino Studies Institute)
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Hispanics In The U.S.: Migration And Adjustment, Mariana Romo-Carmona
Hispanics In The U.S.: Migration And Adjustment, Mariana Romo-Carmona
Open Educational Resources
This course will discuss the challenge that the multifaceted Latino/a-Hispanic reality poses to the anglo-european and monocultural conception of the United States. For the most part, mainstream approaches to the study of Latino and Latina populations in the United States tend to focus on Latinos/as as a problem group, somehow outside and distinct from society. In our approach, we will shift perspectives to the myriad identities that in fact constitute the U.S. We will read and discuss texts on the socio-economic and political origins of migration from Latin America and the Spanish speaking Caribbean to the United States, as well …
Choutouts: Language Contact And Us-Latin Hip Hop On Youtube, Matt Garley
Choutouts: Language Contact And Us-Latin Hip Hop On Youtube, Matt Garley
Publications and Research
This paper presents a corpus-sociolinguistic analysis of lyrics and com-ments from videos for four US-Latinx hip hop songs on YouTube. A‘post-varieties’ (Seargeant and Tagg 2011) analysis of the diversity andhybridity of linguistic production in the YouTube comments finds thenotions of codemeshing and plurilingualism (Canagarajah 2009) usefulin characterizing the language practices of the Chicanx community ofthe Southwestern US, while a focus on the linguistic practices of com-menters on Northeastern ‘core’ artists’ tracks validate the use of namedlanguage varieties in examining language attitudes and ideologies asthey emerge in commenters’ discussions. Finally, this article advancesthe sociolinguistics of orthography (Sebba 2007) by examining thesocial …