How the United States Racializes Latinos by José A. Cobas Jorge Duany Joe R. Feagin

Author:José A. Cobas, Jorge Duany, Joe R. Feagin [José A. Cobas, Jorge Duany, Joe R. Feagin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781317258025
Google: cSgeCwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-03T06:00:12+00:00

CONCLUSION

The epigraph from Bourdieu that opens this chapter raises an important question: What roles do “responsibility,” “intention,” and “awareness” play in symbolic violence? I have found it helpful to understand linguistic appropriation and Mock Spanish within the larger sociocultural framework of white racism in the United States. Most people understand racism within the terms of a folk theory that insists that a “racist” must hold prejudiced beliefs and act intentionally upon these. When the components of “denial” that I have enumerated above for Mock Spanish are suggested to them, they vigorously reject these as impossible, because surely no racism is intended by such common and even entertaining and delightful usages. And, indeed, sometimes it is difficult to see why one would analyze Mock Spanish as in any way “violent,” symbolically or otherwise. Consider the following exchange, which I overheard on a Sunday morning in March 2001 in the Elk City Cafe in Redway, California. Both speakers were Anglos.

COUNTER WAITRESS TO MALE CUSTOMER: How’s it going?

CUSTOMER: Oh, mas o menos.

WAITRESS: Not so bueno, huh?

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