You da man
Narrating the racial other in the production of white masculinity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3607638 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Bucholtz (0000-0001-7343-3374, Mitchell Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 443-460 |
| Publication date | 1999-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9481.00090 |
| OpenAlex | W1977648104 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 168 |
| References cited | 16 |
Sociolinguistic research on the linguistic construction of identity has begun to attend to the construction of culturally normative, unmarked social categories such as whiteness and masculinity. The study of these categories involves the investigation of ideology as well as identity, because ideology produces hegemonic forms of white masculinity. Such ideologies of race and gender shape narratives of interracial conflict told by middle-class European American boys at a California high school. The article focuses on one such narrative, told by a white boy who aligns with black youth culture and uses elements of African American Vernacular English in his speech. Via language crossing and other discursive strategies such as constructed dialogue, the narrative positions black masculinity, in contrast to white masculinity, as physically powerful and locally dominant. At the same time, the narrative preserves the racial hierarchy that enables white cultural appropriation of African American culture through language crossing
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Cultural appropriation · Identity (music · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Masculinity · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Racial hierarchy · Sociology · Vernacular · White (mutation · Anthropology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy
Três Ondas Do Estudo Da Variação
Yorkville Crossing
Language and Ethnicity
Style
Meaning and Linguistic Variation
Teacher language ideologies mediating classroom-level language policy in the implementation of dual language bilingual education
Narrative and Identities
Game Changers? Multilingual Learners in a Cape Town Primary School
Ironic Blackness as Masculine Cool
Your politeness is my impoliteness
Korean Hip Hoppers’ Identity Negotiation in Non-performative Spoken Discourse
Colorblind along the color line
Exploring the Vowel Space of Multicultural Toronto English
Análisis de la interacción social en contextos de movilidad transnacional y de superdiversidad
How Do Female and Male Characters Speak in the Japanese Translation of English Crime Novels
Estudio sociolingüístico de las intervenciones políticas y públicas de los presidentes del gobierno extremeño
Qualifying insults, offensive epithets, slurs and expressive expletives
Conventionalized impoliteness formulae in third-party assessments
Where do ethnolects stop
Brooklyn style
Problematizing ethnolects
We is Plural
Race and the language of incels
Entangled Discourses
Social Variation in America
Ideologies of English, ideologies of gender
Introduction
‘Dude, You’re a Fag’
Flourishing African American Vernacular English and Endangered Indigenous Languages
Imitation Is the Most Sincere Form of Mockery
Away with linguists! Normativity, inequality and metascientific reflexivity in sociolinguistic fieldwork
Who tells which story and why? Micro and macro contexts in narrative
Just a preference
She’s hungarious so she’s Mexican but she’s most likely Indian”
Styles and stereotypes
Accomplishing multiethnic identity in mundane talk
Introduction youth language at the intersection
Discovering the quantity of quality
Slurs, stereotypes, and in-equality
Stance and Stancetaking
Negotiating (collective) identity, authentication and community in youth talk about comedy
Does this dick make my rights look bigger?”
Variability in group identity construction
Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’
I be da reel gansta”—A Finnish footballer’s Twitter writing and metapragmatic evaluations of authenticity
Class and productive avoidance in The Real Housewives reunions
Pistas lingüísticas e identidad sexual en La búsqueda de Elizabeth, de Marta Pessarrodona
The construction of ‘tough’ masculinity
Intersections of race and gender in sexual assault trials
The co-influence of the natural, built, and linguistic landscape
Being a Niuean or Being Niue? An Investigation into the Use of Identity Labels
Performative Identity as a Resource for Classroom Participation
Speaking Ortensvenska in Prestigious Spaces
Fabulachia
Nobody canna cross it’
Yo, it’s IST yo’
Reading race beyond black and white
Moving the crowd, ‘crowding’ the emcee
Hate speech and identity
Digital resistance
Racist!’
Vowel variation and reverse acquisition in rural Syrian child and adolescent language
Speech style and authenticity
Phonological rule spreading across hostile lines
Language‐based diversity and faultlines in organizations
Survival narratives
Australian Hip Hop
Committed White Male Teachers and Identifications
Authenticating Subcultural Identities
C Sa Ksé Bon
Cross-Gender Teasing as a Socializing Practice
Gazing at the black teen
Raptors Vs. Bucktees
Language choice in multilingual peer groups
A Question of Representation in Educational Discourse
Stories of Violence
Hipsters in the hood
Ethnicity and Sociolinguistic Variation in San Francisco
Slurs and the indexical field
Self‐presentation in sociolinguistic interviews
He's got Jheri curls and Tims on
Are you losing your culture
Variation in transcription
Three Waves of Variation Study
Yorkville Crossing
Ideologies of legitimate mockery
Speaking like Asian immigrants
Quand les Toubabs parlent avec un accent ivoirien
"Code switching" in sociocultural linguistics
La voz gringa
Language and Masculinities
Raciosemiotic disruptions
And it just becomes queer slang
Styling the worker
Shared spaces, shared structures
Toward a Description of African American Vernacular English Dialect Regions Using “Black Twitter
Dutchified English on Broadway
Identities in Transition
Language problem or language conflict? Narratives of immigrant women’s experiences in the US
Ethnic Rootedness and Social Affiliations at the Interface with Linguistic Performativity
Language, gender, and society
Talking Voices
Crossing
Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
Storytelling Rights
Gender Articulated
Stuart Hall
You gotta be a man or a girl”
Jockeying for Position
Language and Masculinity
Men’s Identities and Sociolinguistic Variation
Sounding Gay
Intonation in a Man's World
Language Behavior in a Black Urban Community
Women, Race and Class
Language, Race, and White Public Space
| Unique citing works | 168 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,22 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 167 |