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identity-related meanings. Hewitt (1986) discusses how among young black people in South Londontwo modalities of ethnicity are generated: One is stressed, political, and contesting, the otherunstressed and realized through the local multi-ethnic vernacular. Heller (1992b) discusses the use of code-switching as part of the linguistic economy in Quebec and Ontario, where bilingual resources are used as a strategy in ethnic mobilization. Similarly Shuman and Camitta (see below) contrast the resistance to school literacy with the vernacular literacies practiced at home. All these studies contribute to an understanding of how the standard, the “literate,” and the “schooled” come to be valued, and of the stigmatization and resistance to this hegemony through the use of vernacular and community resources.
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