Language, Identity and Justice

The Anthropolitical Worlds of Ana Celia Zentella
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-83668-465-7
Verlag: Channel View Publications

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

With linguistic and cultural diversity increasingly under attack, Ana Celia Zentella’s work becomes more and more poignant

Now more than ever, questions of the interplay and interdependency between academic work and activism are crucial. This book traces these questions through the work of one thinker, Ana Celia Zentella, who has made important contributions to the development of both linguistics and anthropology over the course of her career. The book presents key pieces of her anthropolitical work, the lived experience of language use, and activism. It traces how her thinking has evolved and how her activism has informed her academic work, and vice versa. The book will be both a valuable introduction to her work for new students, and an accessible selection of reading for scholars wishing to trace the development of key current debates in linguistics and anthropology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zentella, Ana Celia

Schwartz, Adam

Urciuoli, Bonnie

Aquino-Sterling, Cristian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements. Ana Celia Zentella

Introduction. Bonnie Urciuoli, Adam Schwartz, Cristian R. Aquino Sterling

Chapter 1. Ana Celia Zentella: A Nuyorican’s View of our History and Language(S) In New York (1945-1965).

Chapter 2. Ana Celia Zentella with Richard P. Duran: “Tá Bien, you could answer me en cualquier idioma”: Puerto Rican Code Switching in Bilingual Classrooms

Chapter 3. Ana Celia Zentella: Returned Migration, Language, and Identity: Puerto Rican Bilinguals in Dos Worlds/Two Mundos

Chapter 4. Ana Celia Zentella: The ‘Chiquita-Fication’ of U.S. Latinos and their Languages, or, Why we Need an Anthro-Political Linguistics

Chapter 5. Ana Celia Zentella: The Grammar of Spanglish

Chapter 6. Ana Celia Zentella: ‘José can you see’: Latin@ Responses to Racist Discourse

Chapter 7. Ana Celia Zentella: Dime con quíén hablas y te diré quién eres: Linguistic (In)security and Latino Unity

Chapter 8. Ana Celia Zentella, R. Otheguy and D. Livert: Language and Dialect Contact in Spanish in New York: Towards the Formation of a Speech Community

Chapter 9. Ana Celia Zentella: Books as the Magic Bullet

Chapter 10. Ana Celia Zentella: ‘Socials,’ ‘Poch@s,’ ‘Normals,’ y lo demás: School Networks and Linguistic Capital of High School Students on the Tijuana-San Diego Border.

Afterword. Ana Celia Zentella

Über Autor(innen)

Urciuoli, Bonnie
Bonnie Urciuoli is Emerita Professor of Anthropology at Hamilton College, USA. Her areas of interest are linguistic, semiotic, and cultural anthropology.

Zentella, Ana Celia
Ana Celia Zentella is Professor Emerita, UC San Diego, USA. A central figure in what she has named "anthropolitical linguistics,” she has studied varieties of Spanish and English, Spanglish, language socialization in U.S. Latin@ families, and linguistic intolerance facilitated by English-only laws and anti- bilingual education legislation.

Aquino-Sterling, Cristian
Cristian Aquino-Sterling is Associate Professor of Bi-/multilingual Education in the College of Education at Texas Tech University, USA. He is co-founder and director of the International Bilingual Education Research Group (www.icberg.org).

Schwartz, Adam
Adam Schwartz is an Associate Professor at Oregon State University, USA, and is a critical applied linguist.

Ana Celia Zentella is Professor Emerita, UC San Diego, USA. A central figure in what she has named "anthropolitical linguistics,” she has studied varieties of Spanish and English, Spanglish, language socialization in U.S. Latin@ families, and linguistic intolerance facilitated by English-only laws and anti- bilingual education legislation.

Adam Schwartz is an Associate Professor of Language, Culture and Society at Oregon State University, USA, and is a critical applied linguist.

Bonnie Urciuoli is Emerita Professor of Anthropology at Hamilton College, USA. Her areas of interest are linguistic, semiotic, and cultural anthropology.

Cristian Aquino-Sterling is Associate Professor of Bi-/multilingual Education at Texas Tech University, USA. He is co-founder and director of the International Bilingual Education Research Group (www.icberg.org).