Graduation Year
2022
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
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Reader 1
Martin Vega
Reader 2
Kimberly Drake
Abstract
Phoenix is a city that is expanding rapidly year after year due to an influx of people moving there for various reasons from more accessible housing to an increase in employment opportunities. Given its immigrant and Spanish-speaking population, my focus is to talk about linguistic accessibility in Phoenix for people who are primarily Spanish speakers. Through oral history interviews with primarily Spanish speakers and ethnographic fieldwork in Phoenix, I argue that language is formed and learned through community and that language builds community. This research reveals that traffic signage, including those for drivers, pedestrians, public transportation, reflects the political and social atmosphere but can also be used to create bridges for and between communities.
Recommended Citation
Gonzalez Saldana, Estrella, "Navegando Phoenix en la Comunidad Hispanohablante: El uso de los señalamientos de tráfico como una herramienta del racismo lingüístico y como la comunidad hispanohablante lo combate / Navigating Phoenix in the Spanish-speaking Community: The use of traffic signals as a tool of linguistic racism and how the Spanish-speaking community fights it" (2022). Scripps Senior Theses. 1846.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1846
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
