Cover; Language across Difference; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Beginnings: shouts of affirmation from South Vista; DEVELOPING A HUMANIZING RESEARCH STANCE; THE NEED FOR INTERETHNIC LANGUAGE AND LITERACY RESEARCH IN US SCHOOLS; ON LANGUAGE SHARING, DEXTERITY, AND PLURALITY; THE PARADOX OF PLURALISM IN UNEQUAL SOCIETIES; INTRODUCING THE MULTIETHNIC YOUTH SPACE OF SOUTH VISTA; 2 "Spanish is becoming famous": youth perspectives on Spanish in a changing youth community; "IT'S OUR CULTURE, WE HAVE TO": SPANISH AS A TOOL OF SOLIDARITY AND EXCLUSION.

"I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU": YOUTH STRIVING TO MAINTAIN SPANISH"THEY TALKING ABOUT US": MISTRUST AND SCHOOL FRIENDSHIPS; "I'M TRYING TO LEARN": SHARING IN SPANISH AT SOUTH VISTA; SHARING THE FUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE IN SCHOOLS; 3 "True Samoan": ethnic solidarity and linguistic reality; "BARELY": LATINO/A AND AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ON PACIFIC ISLANDER LANGUAGES; ELA AND HER LANGUAGE; HYPER-MARGINALIZED LANGUAGES IN SCHOOLS; SOLIDARITY AND EXCLUSION: ONLY HALF THE PARADOX; 4 "They're in my culture, they speak the same way": sharing African American Language at South Vista.

AAL GRAMMAR, LEXICON, AND RITUAL INSULT AMONG BLACK YOUTHGrammar; Lexicon; Signifying and ritual insult; SHARING AAL AT SOUTH VISTA: GRAMMAR, LEXICON, AND RITUAL INSULT; Grammar; Lexicon; Signifying and ritual insult; "EVERYBODY SPEAKS THAT WAY": YOUTH UNDERSTANDINGS OF AAL SHARING; "THIS IS THE NEW MEANING": THE N-WORDS IN MULTIETHNIC CONTEXT; AAL AND EDUCATION IN MULTIETHNIC SCHOOLS; Interlude: on oral language use, research, and teaching in multiethnic schools; TEACHING WITHIN AND ACROSS DIFFERENCE; 5 "You rep what you're from": texting identities in multiethnic youth space.

IDENTITY TEXTS AS AN ANALYTIC LENS"TRUE HAMOZ GURL FO LYPH": MAPPING CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY THROUGH WORN TEXTS; "WAS UP DIS CHELLE WAT U DOIN": AAL AND RESISTANCE IN DELIVERED TEXT; "A NEW ROOT": FLOWS IN SOUTH VISTA AND RAHUL'S TEXTUAL PLURALITY; JOINING THE WORK OF THE COUNTER-SCRIPTURAL ECONOMY; 6 Making school go: re-visioning school for pluralism; ROCHELLE AND THE SUNFLOWERS AGAIN; Appendix: Notes on methodology in cultural studies of language across difference; Notes; References; Index.