Chapter 7
The Escondido swap meet
A place of covert resistance
The Spanish-speaking community in North County
San Diego, a community comprised mostly of Mexicans, Mexican
Americans, and Chicanxs, but also of Guatemalans, Salvadorians, and
Nicaraguans, are using language as a tool for resistance in the
linguistic landscape of the Escondido swap meet. In this work, I
consider how linguistic practices in the landscape are strategically
used and how they compare to what it entails to be a speaker of a
language that is considered undesired and has been racialized, but
it is at the same time an asset to the local Spanish-speaking
community, as it is used to maintain their linguistic roots, and
resist linguistic oppression.
Article outline
- Introduction
- Background
- Questions motivating this work
- Theoretical background
- Methods
- The landscape of the Escondido swap meet
- Conclusions
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