1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789855503321

Autore

Salomone Rosemary C

Titolo

True American [[electronic resource] ] : language, identity, and the education of immigrant children / / Rosemary C. Salomone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-674-26701-X

0-674-05683-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 306 p.)

Disciplina

371.82/691

Soggetti

Immigrant children - Education - United States

Immigrant children - United States - Language

Immigrant children - United States - Ethnic identity

Education, Bilingual - United States

Americanization

United States Ethnic relations

United States Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910142734603321

Titolo

SCW 2006 : IEEE Services Computing Workshops : proceedings : 18-22 September, 2006, Chicago, Illinois

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : IEEE, 2006

ISBN

9781509096022

1509096027

Disciplina

004.2/2

Soggetti

Computer architecture

Computer networks

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Computer Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph