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Racialization in Payday Mugging Narratives
Author(s) -
Wortham Stanton,
Allard Elaine,
Lee Kathy,
Mortimer Katherine
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of linguistic anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.463
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1548-1395
pISSN - 1055-1360
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2011.001097.x
Subject(s) - racialization , narrative , immigration , gender studies , identity (music) , sociology , race (biology) , ethnology , history , art , aesthetics , literature , archaeology
As Mexican immigrants move to areas of the United States that have not been home to Latinos, both longstanding residents and newcomers must make sense of their new neighbors. In one East Coast suburb relevant models of identity are sometimes communicated through “payday mugging” stories about African American criminals mugging undocumented Mexican victims. These narratives racialize African Americans and Mexicans in different ways. As payday mugging stories move across narrators from different communities, the racialized characterizations shift. [narrative; speech chains; racialization; Mexican migration]