Race Talk - (Racism, Resistance and Social Change) by Antonia Lucia Dawes (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Race talk</i> is about multilingual language practices in racially diverse street markets in Naples, southern Italy. It argues that attention to talk between people differentiated on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, legal status, religion and language reveals the way in which ideas about racial difference, positionality and belonging are contested, negotiated and, potentially, transformed.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Race talk</em> is about language as an anti-racist practice in multicultural city spaces. The book contends that attention to talk reveals the relations of domination and subordination in heterogeneous, ethnically diverse and multilingual contexts, while also helping us to understand how transcultural solidarity might be expressed.<br /> <br /> Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted on licensed and unlicensed market stalls in the southern Italian city of Napoli, this book examines the centrality of multilingual talk to everyday struggles about difference, positionality and entitlement. In these street markets, Neapolitan street vendors worked alongside documented and undocumented migrants from Bangladesh, China, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal as part of an ambivalent, cooperative and unequal quest to survive and prosper.<br /> <br /> As austerity, anti-immigration politics and urban regeneration projects encroached upon the possibilities of street vending, talk across linguistic, cultural, legal and religious boundaries underpinned the collective action of street vendors struggling to keep their markets open. <br /> <br /> The edginess of their multilingual organisation offered useful insights into the kinds of imaginaries that will be needed to overcome the politics of borders, nationalism and radical incommunicability.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><i>Race talk</i> is about language use as an anti-racist practice in multicultural city spaces. The book contends that attention to talk reveals the relations of domination and subordination in heterogeneous, ethnically diverse and multilingual contexts, while also helping us to understand how transcultural solidarity might be expressed. Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted on licensed and unlicensed market stalls in the southern Italian city of Napoli, this book examines the centrality of multilingual talk to everyday struggles about difference, positionality and entitlement. In these street markets, Neapolitan street vendors worked alongside documented and undocumented migrants from Bangladesh, China, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal as part of an ambivalent, cooperative and unequal quest to survive and prosper. As austerity, anti-immigration politics and urban regeneration projects encroached upon the possibilities of street vending, talk across linguistic, cultural, national and religious boundaries underpinned the collective action of street vendors struggling to keep their markets open. The edginess of their multilingual organisation offered useful insights into the kinds of imaginaries that will be needed to overcome the politics of borders, nationalism and radical incommunicability.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Antonia Lucia Dawes is a Lecturer in Social Justice at King's College London
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