Norma Mendoza-Denton

Norma Mendoza-Denton is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on youth language, migration, politics, and identity. She is the author of Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practices Among Latina Youth Gangs (2000) and editor of Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies (with Janet McIntosh, 2020).