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WP191 Stance-taking and the discursive construction of ethnicity in schools: Insights from southwestern China
2016
Few studies of ethnic education in China have explored new perspectives generated by the conditions of late modernity where traditional, and often essentialist, conceptualizations of ethnic identity and culture have lost their explaining power. This …
WP61 From "multi-ethnic urban heteroglossia" to "contemporary urban vernaculars"
2010
Research on crossing and stylisation in the everyday practice of young people in multi-ethnic urban areas of Britain during the 1980s and 1990s pointed to the destabilisation of inherited ethnicities, to a good deal of ground-level anti-racism, and …
WP59 An everyday poetics of class and ethnicity in stylization and crossing
2010
This paper looks at how the artful and the everyday are interwoven in situated activity, and in its analysis of crossing and stylisation among adolescents, it suggests that the dynamic relationship between poetic and ordinary speech can help to …
WP40 Analysing class & ethnicity as communicative practices: A case study of migration-based multilingualism in Upstate New York
2006
Although the educational difficulties Latinos experience in US are well-documented, the interplay between social class and ethnic status is controversial and poorly understood. Additionally, we lack models which translate ethnicity and class, as …