White Talk Black Talk

Inter-Racial Friendship and Communication Amongst Adolescents

By: Roger Hewitt

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Paperback | 22 December 1986

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This book studies the relations between black and white adolescents in an urban environment (South London); the processes by which racism is relayed within adolescent communities, and the strategies which subvert or encourage them. More specifically Hewitt examines the sociolinguistic impact of the ''London Jamaican'' creole used by young black Londoners on the language and culture of young whites. Basing his work on extensive fieldwork amongst racially mixed groups in youth clubs, schools and ''street corner'' contexts. Hewitt is able to examine the way racial attitudes and cultural allegiances are expressed in, and affected by, inter-racial friendships.

White talk black talk is a uniquely ethnographic account which places the use of black language forms in the speech of whites firmly in its social and political setting: in integrating disciplines in a creative way Hewitt sites a practical sociolinguistic study within a much wider and systematic sociological context of group interaction.

This study will be of special interest within sociolinguistics, the sociology of race-relations and of youth culture, and urban anthropology, but its rich and fascinating ethnographic detail will also make it of interest to the non-specialist.

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'Sociologists, social psychologists, and linguists will find this detailed examination of styles of dress, play, music and creole speech an insightful and important contribution to our understanding of the subtleties of adolescent group membership and identification.' Shirley Brice Heath

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Acknowledgements	p. ix
Typographical conventions	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
The 'contact hypothesis'
Studies of children's 'racial attitudes'
Adolescents and racism
Language and 'inter-ethnic relations'
Terms of the research -- sample and methodology
The two research areas
Inter-racial friendship in Area A	p. 17
The social contexts of friendship
Primary peer groups and extended peer groups
Two adolescent groups
Non style-based
Skinhead
Diffusion of racism amongst white adolescents
Black resistance to racism
The attraction of black youth culture for whites
Careers of inter-racial friendship through adolescence
Inter-racial friendship in Area B	p. 66
Black adolescent ideas of racism
Forms of association
Racially mixed peer groups and ideological relays
Blacks and whites 'have to get on'
Black youth culture and the informal pedagogy of cultural interactions
The language of black youth culture	p. 100
Creole as a 'prestige youth language'
Caribbean and British creole relationships
Extent and nature of creole use by young blacks
Politically oppositional uses of creole
Expressive/creative dimensions
'sound systems', creole and the symbolism of black youth culture
Creole forms in white adolescent speech	p. 126
Lexical traffic between black and white adolescents
Conscious and unconscious appropriations of 'black' speech forms by whites
'cultural' and 'competitive' modes
Identification with black language and culture by whites and the erosion of racist ideology
White creole use in inter-racial contexts	p. 150
Symbolic importance of creole
Creole and oppositional pupil cuiture
Black hostility to white creole use
Creole and black/white power relations
'private linguistic arrangements' in inter-racial friendship
White-with-black creole use, its modes and contradictions
'black language' use by other minorities
Black/white sociolinguistic relations in the United States and the Caribbean
Social semiotics and ideology	p. 200
The semiotic context of creole usage
Sociolinguistics and class/group relations
Ideology, class/race and signification
'black culture' and political meaning
'blacks and whites against Pakis and Turks': Asian/Caribbean antinomies in racist ideology
The political limitations of cultural means
Transmission and intervention: racism and anti-racism in communicative practices	p. 219
Codes and constituencies -- the resource languages of racism
'doing racism' through transmission
More 'struggles within signification'
The dialogue between social/political terrains
Dealing with the 'fact of racism'
Conclusion
References	p. 240
Index	p. 247
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