Feeling It

<p><em>Feeling It</em> brings together twelve chapters from researchers in Chicanx studies education feminist studies linguistics and translation studies to offer a cohesive yet broad-ranging exploration of the issue of affect in the language and learning experiences of Latinx youth. Drawing on data from an innovative social justice-oriented university-community partnership based in young people’s social agency and their linguistic and cultural expertise the contributors are unified by their focus on a single year in the history of this partnership; their analytic focus on race language and affect in educational contexts; and their shared commitment to ethnography discourse analysis and qualitative methods informed by participatory and social justice paradigms for research with youth of color.</p><p>Designed specifically for use in courses with theoretical framing by the co-editors and ethnographic contributions from leading and emergent scholars this book is an important and timely resource on affect race and social justice in the United States. Thanks to its interdisciplinary grounding <i>Feeling It </i>will be of interest to future teachers and to researchers and students in applied linguistics education and Latinx studies as well as related fields such as anthropology communication social psychology and sociology.</p>