Homegirls

by Norma Mendoza-Denton

Book Overview

In this ground-breaking new book on the Norte a and Sure a (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. Her engrossing ethnographic and sociolinguistic study reveals the connection of language behavior and other symbolic practices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 063123490X
• ISBN13: 9780631234906
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"