ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on identity and community. Identity can be seen as positionality, and one way that speakers may position themselves vis-a-vis others is through the deployment of identity category terms in interaction. The chapter explores how the distinctions and boundaries between collectivities are drawn by participants, highlights intragroup heterogeneity, and considers in-group and out-group perceptions of group-ness. It explores the use of ‘ethnic mentions’ in narratives from the corpus and offers an analysis of examples of making community that highlight different orientations to inclusion and coalition. The chapter looks at moments of doing identity and making community in order to see how participants who have identified as queer and Mexican/Latinx, at least to the extent necessary to agree to participate in the research, might imagine a queer Mexican/Latinx community, and how they might include or exclude themselves in that collectivity.
