CRS 384 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mexican Spanish, Tongues Untied
13 Dec 2016
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Group identity, narrative and self-representation anna de fina. Loving partner vs hard working student in classroom. Stories present an arena for the negotiation of stances vis- -vis shared representations if group identity. Narrators convey implicit stances towards social definitions of who they are through the use of performance devices. Mexicans and other immigrant groups in the u. s. The label hispanic is not self-chosen, but is applied to mexican immigrants through social categorization processes with which they need to come to terms in order to define a new identity. The selection between terms such as chicano or latino for self- identification has been related to social factors such as age, social class and generation. Specifies that there were only gringos (white people and girls) Color is presented in this orientation as a relevant category for the understanding of the events the white girls specifically was a novelty and a source of excitement for them.
