In my hood
Scaling urban personae outside the urban center
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2893091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharese King (0000-0002-1350-2718, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-25 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047404524001039 |
| OpenAlex | W4406337003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 45 |
Examining regional variation across African American communities has advanced research on African American English beyond its treatment as a singular, uniform variety. While the earlier focus on inner-city, and often male, youth prioritized studying these speakers' production of ethnolectal patterns, less attention was paid to other language practices of these speakers and their broader semiotic construction of identity. Drawing on ethnographic data and sociolinguistic interviews from African American speakers from Rochester, New York who identify as Hood Kids, I examine how the bought vowel can become a marker of a particular place-identity in Rochester. I argue that the Hood Kid is an adequation of an enregistered racialized NYC persona that reanalyzes bought while also drawing on other emblems of Black, street culture. Such variation suggests that speakers' conceptualization of race and place ideologically scales beyond immediately local geographic boundaries. (African American Language, style, race and ethnicity, regional variation
Aesthetics · Art · Conceptualization · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Humanities · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Persona · Race (biology) · Semiotics · Sociology · Variation (astronomy) · Variety (cybernetics) · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy
The Atlas of North American English
Locating Identity in Language
The Social Stratification of English in New York City
Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life
Subculture
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Black Feminist Thought
The Vowel Phonologies of African American and White New York City Residents
From African American Vernacular English to African American Language
Language Variation and Social Networks
Communities of Practice in Sociolinguistic Description
Country ideology and the California Vowel Shift
A comparison of three speaker-intrinsic vowel formant frequency normalization algorithms for sociophonetics
Language and Social Networks
Tense Marking in Black English
A Research Note on Trends in Black Hypersegregation
Mobility, Indexicality, and the Enregisterment of “Pittsburghese
Local features, local meanings
Regional variability and ethnic identity
Embodying “tech
Three Waves of Variation Study
Multidimensional Identity as Bricolage
The Object Called "Language" and the Subject of Linguistics
The Oxford Handbook of African American Language
Scale
Linguistic repertoire and ethnic identity in New York City
Sociolinguistic Folklore in the Study of African American English
Integrating Intersectionality in Language, Gender, and Sexuality Research
Phonological and Phonetic Characteristics of African American Vernacular English
Rethinking race and place
Sociolinguistic nostalgia and the authentication of identity
Contextualizing reversal
Ethnolinguistic repertoire
The social motivations of reversal
Unsettling race and language
The fierceness of fronted /s
In my hood
Homegirls
Rethinking Context
Voice, Footing, Enregisterment
Ferguson
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |