La voz gringa: Latino stylization of linguistic (in)authenticity as social critique

Discourse and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 474-490

  Carris, Lauren Mason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

brown masculinity; Chicana o; class; discourse analysis; gender; Gringo; Latina o; Mexican restaurant; mock language; race ethnicity; racism; Spanglish; style; whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960610665     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926510395835     Document Type: Article

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