Avoid political isolation To the editor -- Herman Badillo, who as a Hispanic congressman from New York, led successful efforts to establish bilingual voting and bilingual education in 1974. In his 2006 book, "One Nation, One Standard," he says that those policies "backfired drastically" because "bilingualism and identity politics have produced an ingrained resistance" for Hispanics "to enter the American mainstream.
... essay focuses on the arguments of "Bilingualism vs. Bilingual Education" (Unz, 1997)--a widely-cir...
The traditional legal definition of citizenship in the U.S. is linked to the granting of full membership and access to political, social, and civil rights by the government, yet there are numerous examples of these rights not being granted to all people equally (Hernández-Truyol, 2005; Johnson, 2002a; Hernández-Truyol and Hawk, 2005).\n Our analysis focused more on cultural citizenship, but the narratives of our participants highlight that legal citizenship is a reality that shapes one's access to education, employment, and safety. A clear link to how one's legal status in this country affords certain legal rights is revealed in statements such as that of the kindergartener, fearing her mother would be sent back to Mexico, or of the university student mentors who told us of the amount ...
...We will not bring politics into this school.". The fact that Adelante parents... school, yet their narratives of bilingualism and participating in a dual immersion program were...
... of immigration on American society, politics and culture more broadly. Other topics/issues that.../ethnic communities; the politics of bilingualism; social, economic, and cultural adaptation and pol...
..., alongside traditional forms of politics. Only four years into the devolution process, Wels... to developing institutional bilingualism. . All this is easier said than done. It may be di...
... and repressive immigration policies, a politics of fear was generally considered as being develope... issue; the Californian debate on bilingualism; the question of the "national language" in France...
... This article is about the paradoxes of a politics of separation in contexts in which what people do ...The policy of bilingualism has been more evident on paper than in practice be...
..., particularly whiteness, and the racial politics, particularly around language, in their classrooms... how the content--race narratives, bilingualism, alternative discourses, etc.--would be affected b...
... framed this study emerged first from bilingualism and its two forms, namely the additive and the sub...The Politics of Language in African Literature. Harare, Zimbabw...
The beat goes on ... The United States remains mired in debt and two wars. Japan's massive reconstruction problems are indescribable and won't be fully resolved anytime soon. The Middle East is a powderkeg with a fuse that can be lit at any moment. Escalating oil prices hamper everyone and everything, both in this country and elsewhere, and early relief appears highly unlikely. Libya continues to thumb its nose at the civilized world while soaking its soil with the blood of people who dare to challenge an evil dictatorship.
..., it will heavily influence American politics, culture and economics. Whether that influence is ... on issues such as the importance of bilingualism and sound immigration policy," Gaston Caperton, pr...
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