Book Review: Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice among Latina Youth Gangs. By Norma Mendoza-Denton. New Directions in Ethnography. London: Blackwell,2008. xiv + 339,index. ISBN: 063123490X

Eckert, Penelope. 2005. Variation, convention and social meaning. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Oakland, CA, January 7. http://www.stanford.edu/~eckert/EckertLSA2005.pdf.

Nguyen, Jennifer. 2006. The changing social and linguistic orientation of the African American middle class. PhD diss., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.