Looking like a language, sounding like a race: raciolinguistic ideologies and the learning of Latinidad

'Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race' examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in contemporary U.S. constructions of Latinidad. The book draws from long-term ethnographic research in a Chicago high school and its surrounding communities to analyze the creation and contestation of political, ethnoracial and linguistic borders.

Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in contemporary U.S. constructions of Latinidad. The book draws from long-term ethnographic research in a Chicago high school and its surrounding communities to analyze the creation and contestation of political, ethnoracial, and linguistic borders.

2. "I Heard that Mexicans Are Hispanic and Puerto Ricans Are Latino": Ethnoracial Contortions, Diasporic Imaginaries, and Institutional Trajectories3. "Latino Flavors": Emblematizing, Embodying, and Enacting Latinidad; Part II: Sounding like a Race: Latinx Raciolinguistic Enregisterment; 4. "They're Bilingual . . . That Means They Don't Know the Language": The Ideology of Languagelessness in Practice, Policy, and Theory; 5. "Pink Cheese, Green Ghosts, Cool Arrows/​Pinches Gringos Culeros": Inverted Spanglish and Latinx Raciolinguistic Enregisterment