Lauren Mason Carris
Biographic Data
| ID | 193249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Mason Carris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren Mason |
| FAMILY NAME | Carris |
| SIGNATURE | CARRIS L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Linguistic creativity and the production of cisheteropatriarchy: A comparative analysis of improvised rap battles in Los Angeles and Cape Town
Moving the crowd, ‘crowding’ the emcee: The coproduction and contestation of black normativity in freestyle rap battles
This article shows how participants in freestyle rap battles coproduce and contest hip hop as a black space. Through discourse analysis of long-term ethnographic fieldwork at an open mic venue in Los Angeles, we show how black normativity is co-constructed and sometimes challenged by non-black emcees and audience members. Specifically, we examine videotaped data of verbal artistic duels between a black and a Latino emcee, analyzing instances in w…
La voz gringa: Latino stylization of linguistic (in)authenticity as social critique
Through discourse analysis of a transcribed conversation in a southern California Mexican restaurant, I identify a discursive practice in which Latina/os mock a white woman's pronunciation of Spanish. Specifically, I examine how participants call attention to linguistic features associated with whiteness in her pronunciation of puto, a pejorative Spanish slang term used to refer to gay men, similar to the use of 'faggot' in American English. By u…
Short Fried-Rice-Eating Chinese MCs" and "Good-Hair-Havin Uncle Tom Niggas: Performing Race and Ethnicity in Freestyle Rap Battles
This article shows how emcees create local meanings of race and ethnicity in freestyle rap battles. We demonstrate how performers attach new social meanings to race and ethnicity in verbal duels, even as they also reproduce normative meanings around gender and sexuality. Further, we suggest that the construction of local, alternative meanings around race and ethnicity might actually help support dominant racial hierarchies by relegating "blacknes…
Short Fried-Rice-Eating Chinese MCs" and "Good-Hair-Havin Uncle Tom Niggas: Performing Race and Ethnicity in Freestyle Rap Battles
This article shows how emcees create local meanings of race and ethnicity in freestyle rap battles. We demonstrate how performers attach new social meanings to race and ethnicity in verbal duels, even as they also reproduce normative meanings around gender and sexuality. Further, we suggest that the construction of local, alternative meanings around race and ethnicity might actually help support dominant racial hierarchies by relegating "blacknes…
La voz gringa: Latino stylization of linguistic (in)authenticity as social critique
Through discourse analysis of a transcribed conversation in a southern California Mexican restaurant, I identify a discursive practice in which Latina/os mock a white woman's pronunciation of Spanish. Specifically, I examine how participants call attention to linguistic features associated with whiteness in her pronunciation of puto, a pejorative Spanish slang term used to refer to gay men, similar to the use of 'faggot' in American English. By u…
Moving the crowd, ‘crowding’ the emcee: The coproduction and contestation of black normativity in freestyle rap battles
This article shows how participants in freestyle rap battles coproduce and contest hip hop as a black space. Through discourse analysis of long-term ethnographic fieldwork at an open mic venue in Los Angeles, we show how black normativity is co-constructed and sometimes challenged by non-black emcees and audience members. Specifically, we examine videotaped data of verbal artistic duels between a black and a Latino emcee, analyzing instances in w…
Linguistic creativity and the production of cisheteropatriarchy: A comparative analysis of improvised rap battles in Los Angeles and Cape Town
Short Fried-Rice-Eating Chinese MCs" and "Good-Hair-Havin Uncle Tom Niggas: Performing Race and Ethnicity in Freestyle Rap Battles
This article shows how emcees create local meanings of race and ethnicity in freestyle rap battles. We demonstrate how performers attach new social meanings to race and ethnicity in verbal duels, even as they also reproduce normative meanings around gender and sexuality. Further, we suggest that the construction of local, alternative meanings around race and ethnicity might actually help support dominant racial hierarchies by relegating "blacknes…
Moving the crowd, ‘crowding’ the emcee: The coproduction and contestation of black normativity in freestyle rap battles
This article shows how participants in freestyle rap battles coproduce and contest hip hop as a black space. Through discourse analysis of long-term ethnographic fieldwork at an open mic venue in Los Angeles, we show how black normativity is co-constructed and sometimes challenged by non-black emcees and audience members. Specifically, we examine videotaped data of verbal artistic duels between a black and a Latino emcee, analyzing instances in w…
La voz gringa: Latino stylization of linguistic (in)authenticity as social critique
Through discourse analysis of a transcribed conversation in a southern California Mexican restaurant, I identify a discursive practice in which Latina/os mock a white woman's pronunciation of Spanish. Specifically, I examine how participants call attention to linguistic features associated with whiteness in her pronunciation of puto, a pejorative Spanish slang term used to refer to gay men, similar to the use of 'faggot' in American English. By u…
Linguistic creativity and the production of cisheteropatriarchy: A comparative analysis of improvised rap battles in Los Angeles and Cape Town
Anthropology (2 works) · CONTEST (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)