ANTH 2001 Lecture 17: Lecture Notes

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 2001
• Professor: Daniel Rosenblatt

Document Summary

Identity as a project: what is identity, something people do in their lives to have and make meaning, md is writing about why youth engage in identity making (ethnic identity formation, racial, gender, etc, with this book md is confronting what a gang is, not just something generating a moral panic," but part of group formation, identity making, etc, hemispheric localism: Md in interview with junior notes that certain word choices are reflective of a person who is bilingual, so him speaking just spanish is a choice, he is actively rejecting english to identify/align himself with the surs: subconscious slips" of word choices (i. e. junior) reveal underlying ideologies. Recap: language, including pronunciation, can be a marker of identity and ideological difference: mendoza denton (nd) on gang identity, nd is arguing against police vision of norte and sur, that these groups are all about gang violence," police tend to dramatize tenuous link to prison gangs, nd says gangs are political.