Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race

Jonathan Rosa is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and, by courtesy, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics, at Stanford University. His research analyzes the interplay between racial marginalization, linguistic stigmatization, and educational inequity. Rosa's work has appeared in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Educational Review, American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, as well as media outlets such as MSNBC, NPR, CNN, and Univision.

• Introduction: Making Latinx Identities and Managing American Anxieties Part I: Looking like a Language: Latinx Ethnoracial Category-MakingChapter 1: From "Gangbangers and Hoes" to "Young Latino Professionals": Intersectional Mobility and the Ambivalent Management of Stigmatized Student Bodies Chapter 2: "I heard that Mexicans are Hispanic and Puerto Ricans are Latino": Ethnoracial Contortions, Diasporic Imaginaries, and Institutional TrajectoriesChapter 3: "Latino flavors": Emblematizing, Embodying, and Enacting Latinidad Part II: Sounding like a Race: Latinx Raciolinguistic EnregistermentChapter 4:"They're bilingual that means they don't know the language": The Ideology of Languagelessness in Practice, Policy, and Theory Chapter 5:"Pink Cheese, Green Ghosts, Cool Arrows/Pinches Gringos Culeros": Inverted Spanglish and Latinx Raciolinguistic Enregisterment Chapter 6:"That doesn't count as a book, that's real life!": Outlaw(ed) Literacies, Criminalized Intertextualities, and Institutional Linkages Conclusion: Hearing Limits, Voicing Possibilities References

Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race is pathbreaking in its focus on how Latinxs are racialized through language. In a moment when the relationship between race and Latinidad is hotly debated, Rosa's text helps us to better understand not only how Latinxs make sense of race but also how they seek to assert racialized difference within white supremacist and colonial structures of power.