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May
4
2016

Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Inequality and Ingenuity in the Learning of Latinidad

When: Wednesday, May 4, 2016
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM CT

Where: 1914 Sheridan Road, 1st Fl. Black House Conf. Room, 1914 Sheridan Road , Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Carlos Octavio Ballinas   (847) 467-3980

Group: The Latina and Latino Studies Program

Category: Academic

Description:

A talk by Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Jonathan Rosa

Based on ethnographic research in a predominantly Latina/o Chicago public high school and its surrounding communities, this presentation analyzes the co-naturalization of language and race in the fashioning of Latina/o identities and inequalities. Jonathan will theorize the contemporary (re)production of racial and linguistic difference by examining how race and racialization have been remapped from biology onto language and culture, resulting in the profound social fact that populations come to look like a language and sound like a race across cultural contexts.

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