Bilingual Brokers : Race, Literature, and Language as Human Capital /

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Reading Asian American and Latino literature, Bilingual Brokers traces the shift in attitudes toward bilingualism in postwar America from the focus on cultural assimilation to that of resource management. Interweaving the social significance of language as human capital and the literary significance...

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Autor principal: Lim, Jeehyun (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]
Temas:
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism.
Bilingualism > United States > History > 20th century.
Education, Bilingual.
Multilingualism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.
Asian American literature.
Latino literature.
bilingual personhood.
flexible inclusion.
language difference.
multiculturalism.
postwar liberalism.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Cultural Brokers in Interwar Orientalism
  • 2. Bilingual Personhood and the American Dream
  • 3. Schooling Bilinguals In and against Multiculturalism
  • 4. Dormant Bilingualism in Neoliberal America
  • 5. Global English and the Predicament of Monolingual Multiculturalism
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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