LEADER 04393nam 22006734a 450 001 9910777502303321 005 20230207224854.0 010 $a0-292-79562-9 024 7 $a10.7560/713468 035 $a(CKB)1000000000467046 035 $a(OCoLC)632699940 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10190628 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000232514 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11187738 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000232514 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10214841 035 $a(PQKB)11104931 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443047 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2265 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443047 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10190628 035 $a(DE-B1597)586503 035 $a(OCoLC)1286808529 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292795624 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000467046 100 $a20060602d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRancheros in Chicagoaca?n$b[electronic resource] $elanguage and identity in a transnational community /$fMarcia Farr 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (343 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71346-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [285]-301) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Of ranchos and rancheros : the historical context -- The spatial context : San Juanico, Illinois, and Chicago, Michoaca?n -- The social context of la familia : work, education, religion, and language -- Rethinking mestizaje : racial discourse among rancheros -- Franqueza and the individualist ideology of progress -- Social order among rancheros : equality and reciprocity, hierarchy and respeto -- Relajo as (framed) disorder : the carnivalesque in talk -- Conclusion. 330 $aRancheros hold a distinct place in the culture and social hierarchy of Mexico, falling between the indigenous (Indian) rural Mexicans and the more educated city-dwelling Mexicans. In addition to making up an estimated twenty percent of the population of Mexico, rancheros may comprise the majority of Mexican immigrants to the United States. Although often mestizo (mixed race), rancheros generally identify as non-indigenous, and many identify primarily with the Spanish side of their heritage. They are active seekers of opportunity, and hence very mobile. Rancheros emphasize progress and a self-assertive individualism that contrasts starkly with the common portrayal of rural Mexicans as communal and publicly deferential to social superiors. Marcia Farr studied, over the course of fifteen years, a transnational community of Mexican ranchero families living both in Chicago and in their village-of-origin in Michoacán, Mexico. For this ethnolinguistic portrait, she focuses on three culturally salient styles of speaking that characterize rancheros: franqueza (candid, frank speech); respeto (respectful speech); and relajo (humorous, disruptive language that allows artful verbal critique of the social order maintained through respeto). She studies the construction of local identity through a community's daily talk, and provides the first book-length examination of language and identity in transnational Mexicans. In addition, Farr includes information on the history of rancheros in Mexico, available for the first time in English, as well as an analysis of the racial discourse of rancheros within the context of the history of race and ethnicity in Mexico and the United States. This work provides groundbreaking insight into the lives of rancheros, particularly as seen from their own perspectives. 606 $aAnthropological linguistics$zMexico 606 $aAnthropological linguistics$zUnited States 606 $aMexican Americans$xLanguages 606 $aSpanish language$xSocial aspects$zMexico 606 $aGroup identity 615 0$aAnthropological linguistics 615 0$aAnthropological linguistics 615 0$aMexican Americans$xLanguages. 615 0$aSpanish language$xSocial aspects 615 0$aGroup identity. 676 $a306.44089/68 700 $aFarr$b Marcia$01486464 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777502303321 996 $aRancheros in Chicagoaca?n$93765574 997 $aUNINA