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Title: Negotiating Latina/o Ethnicity in NYC: Social Interactions and Ethnic Self-Presentation

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: Today, an increasing number of people regularly switch from ethnicityto ethnicity in normal discourse, in an attempt to maximize theireconomic and political interests. This paper focuses specifically onethnic flexibility among Latina/os in New York City. Drawing onethnographic, linguistic, and social network data we explore howLatina/os in NYC negotiate between multiple ethnic identities ineveryday contexts. Through language and dialect switches, accents,and even calculated silence the Latinos in our research negotiatedNYCs multi-level system of categorization. We hope to show that noone-to-one relationship exists between subjective feelings of ethnicbelongingness and the use of ethnic markers. Ethnic markers,particularly language-related ones, are manipulated in a number ofcreative ways by members and non-members alike, pushing the limitsof what constitutes ethnic group membership and challenging notionsof ethnic authenticity.

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Authors: Goldbarg, Rosalyn N.; Negrn, Wilneida

Periodical (Full): Dilogos Latinoamericanos

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Volume: 16

Pages: 35-57

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Race and Ethnicity

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