Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning

Speaking Blackness in Brazil

Uju Anya

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Routledge
02 December 2016

Sociolinguistics; Language acquisition

Series: Routledge Advances in Second Language Studies

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*Winner of the 2019 AAAL First Book Award
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Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original sociolinguistic analysis of the African American experience in second language learning. More broadly, this book introduces the idea of second language learning as ""transformative socialization"": how learners, instructors, and their communities shape new communicative selves as they collaboratively construct and negotiate race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and social class identities. Uju Anya’s study follows African American college students learning Portuguese in Afro-Brazilian communities, and their journeys in learning to do and speak blackness in Brazil. Video-recorded interactions, student journals, interviews, and writing assignments show how multiple intersecting identities are enacted and challenged in second language learning. Thematic, critical, and conversation analyses describe ways black Americans learn to speak their material, ideological, and symbolic selves in Portuguese and how linguistic action reproduces or resists power and inequity. The book addresses key questions on how learners can authentically and effectively participate in classrooms and target language communities to show that black students' racialized identities and investments in these communities greatly influence their success in second language learning and how successful others perceive them to be."

By: Uju Anya
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 498g
ISBN: 9781138927780
ISBN 10: 1138927783
Series: Routledge Advances in Second Language Studies
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 02 December 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Uju Anya is Assistant Professor of Second Language Learning in the College of Education at Pennsylvania State University

Reviews for Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil

"""This compelling and erudite volume should be required reading for foreign language educators and study abroad professionals."" –Celeste Kinginger, Department of Applied Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University, USA"