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Mock Spanish Potential Sources:


 * 1) "The Importance of Being Earnest: Mock Spanish, Mass Media, and the Implications for Language Learners"- Laura Callahan
 * 2) * analyzes the use of Mock Spanish
 * 3) * Peer-reviewed
 * 4) * looks at the relationship between Mock Spanish and racism
 * 5) "Discipline and Disorder in the Whiteness of Mock Spanish"- Jennifer Roth-Gordon
 * 6) * Argues that Mock Spanish creates a "loss of whiteness"
 * 7) * Idea of "racial disciplining"
 * 8) * "role of language in racial shifts"
 * 9) "Speaking with (Dis)respect: A Study of Reactions to Mock Spanish"- Laura Callahan
 * 10) * Same author as before (could be a bad thing if I use too many articles from the same author)
 * 11) * Draws on racism and Mock Spanish
 * 12) * Studies who can use Mock Spanish
 * 13) * Correlations between Mock Spanish and identity

Mock Spanish Article Editing:

Make this the second sentience in the articles: Often, these Spanish-inspired phrases are used in a humorous way that play into some of the unfavorable and stereotypical views of Spanish speakers.

Who?: Monolingual Anglo-Americans

Add to first sentence second paragraph: With the use of Mock Spanish gaining popularity, many anthropologists began researching the questions of who could use Mock Spanish and if it was consider racist discourse.

New paragraph: However, a study done on how language ideologies influences the interactions of Anglo-American managers and Spanish-speaking workers in a Mexican restaurant, takes the position that Anglo-Americans lack of attention and indifference to the Spanish language might not always, in some ways, be a bad thing. Rusty Barrett, the author of this study, still heavily explains the racial and unfavorable stigmatization that Mock Spanish may have on native Spanish speakers. Nonetheless, the study states that while mock Spanish can be seen as restrictive of a monolingual Spanish speaker's agency and at times racist, it may actually just shift a Spanish speaker's ability to establish their agency in other ways, at least in the setting of this Mexican restaurant. It explains that because the Anglo-Americans ignore the grammatical components of Spanish and use it in a joking and unfavorable manner, it allows the spanish-speaking workers to openly and loudly speak their opinions and even themselves mock the Anglo-managers. Examples in the article show that despite the restrictive-ness that is seen as a part of the Mock-spanish culture, the Spanish speakers were able to use their agency, through things like access to better food during work because of the kinds of jobs they held and how little attention Anglo-managers payed to them. Additionally, because of the more custodial and low-interaction job positions they held, monolingual Spanish workers at this restaurant were about to assert agency through hidden garbage bags Both of these examples display the the shift in the monolingual Spanish workers agency, despite the Mock Spanish culture by which they are surround with through their Anglo-managers.

Add to the end of Second Paragraph: In "Their Language, Our Spanish," author Adam Schwartz furthered Hills point and argued that the use of Mock Spanish by middle and upper class whites create a "white public space". These white public spaces allow the continuous production of racism along with societally established privilege and social order. In the article Schwartz states, "...[the] unspoken and institutionalized White normalcy underlying [Mock Spanish] carries over to spaces where language is learned, spoken and (re) claimed." He claims that Mock Spanish, or as he calls it, "Gringo language" is cultural and linguistic appropriation, that is socially accepted despite its racist underpinnings. As both Hill and Schwartz argue, Mock Spanish is packed with discreet racism and as Schwartz argues, it can encode for societal power positions and institutionalized disadvantages. Excellent work, Sheila! Well thought through and organized, looks like you are at a great point to start making edits to the live page (if you haven't already). -- Shannon