Format:
Online-Ressource (297 p.)
ISBN:
9781566397544
Series Statement:
Maping Racisms
Content:
Well over thirty million people in the United States speak a primary language other than English. Nearly twenty million of them speak Spanish. And these numbers are growing. Critics of immigration and multiculturalism argue that recent government language policies such as bilingual education, non-English election materials, and social service and workplace "language rights" threaten the national character of the United States. Proponents of bilingualism, on the other hand, maintain that, far from being a threat, these language policies and programs provide an opportunity to right old
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Politics of Language in the United States?; I. The Issues and the Context; II. The Arguments; III. Critique and Reform; Notes; References; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781439906095
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781566397544
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Language Policy & Identity In The U.S
Language:
English
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