True American : Language, Identity, and the Education of Immigrant Children / Rosemary C. Salomone.
Salomone, Rosemary C., author.
2010
LC3731 .S24 2010eb
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Title True American : Language, Identity, and the Education of Immigrant Children / Rosemary C. Salomone.
Author Salomone, Rosemary C., author.
ISBN 9780674056831
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674056831
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010]
Copyright ©2010
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674056831 doi
Call Number LC3731 .S24 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 371.82/691
Summary True American is a look at the history and current politics of languages - English and the many native languages of immigrants - as they play out in schools, historically a central force for assimilation and Americanization. While she does discuss the history of and debates over bilingual education programs, her focus is an analysis of the passionate support for an English-only America. She uses the myths about the assimilation of previous immigrant groups and the debates over how best to educate children of the "new immigrants" as a window for exploring what it means to be a "true American" in an age of globalization and transnationalism.Underlying her discussion of these various debates is Salomone's call for a more inclusive sense of the "we" that demands respect for linguistic and cultural differences, rather than mere toleration. She argues that we can politically equal and culturally compatible without being culturally identical or monolingual.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
The Symbolic and the Salient
Americanization Past
The New Immigrants
Language, Identity, and Belonging
Rights, Ambivalence, and Ambiguities
Backlash
More Wrongs than Rights
Setting the Record Straight
Looking Both Ways
A Meaningful Education
Notes / Index
Notes
Index

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