Publications

Publication details [#54952]

Wortham, Stanton, Katherine Mortimer and Elaine Allard. 2011. Homies in the New Latino Diaspora. Language & Communication 31 (3) : 191–202.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience | identity negotiation | image | interpretation | minority

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This article explores the reception of Homies images in one suburban American town, where Homie imagery recontextualization now and then leads to identities' homogenization, and sometimes mediates less well-known identity projects.