ABSTRACT
Feeling It brings together twelve chapters from researchers in Chicanx studies, education, feminist studies, linguistics, and translation studies to offer a cohesive yet broad-ranging exploration of the issue of affect in the language and learning experiences of Latinx youth. Drawing on data from an innovative social justice-oriented university-community partnership based in young people’s social agency and their linguistic and cultural expertise, the contributors are unified by their focus on a single year in the history of this partnership; their analytic focus on race, language, and affect in educational contexts; and their shared commitment to ethnography, discourse analysis, and qualitative methods, informed by participatory and social justice paradigms for research with youth of color.
Designed specifically for use in courses, with theoretical framing by the co-editors and ethnographic contributions from leading and emergent scholars, this book is an important and timely resource on affect, race, and social justice in the United States. Thanks to its interdisciplinary grounding, Feeling It will be of interest to future teachers and to researchers and students in applied linguistics, education, and Latinx studies, as well as related fields such as anthropology, communication, social psychology, and sociology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|62 pages
Teaching, Learning, and the Affective Challenges of Social Justice
chapter 2|18 pages
“Just” Emotions
chapter 3|25 pages
Joint Creation
chapter 4|17 pages
Sounding White and Boring
part 2|77 pages
Ideologies of Race and Language in the Lives of Youth
chapter 5|21 pages
“There’s No Such Thing as Bad Language, but …”
chapter 6|20 pages
“I Feel Like Really Racist for Laughing”
chapter 7|17 pages
“You Don’t Look Like You Speak English”
chapter 8|17 pages
The Complexities in Seguir Avanzando
part 3|102 pages
Youth as Affective Agents