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Publication details [#50959]

Lee, Jung-Eun Janie. 2009. ‘She’s Hungarious so she’s Mexican but she’s most likely Indian’: Negotiating ethnic labels in a California junior high school. Pragmatics 19 (1) : 39–63.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | high school | identity negotiation | labeling | multiculturalism

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper on youth ethnic labeling discusses how Californian junior high school youth construct and co-construct the concept of ethnicity in a multiethnic context with the help of associated notions.