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True American : language, identity, and the education of immigrant children /

"In this book, Rosemary Salomone uses the heated debate over how best to educate immigrant children as a way to explore what national identity means in an age of globalization, transnationalism, and dual citizenship. She demolishes popular myths -- that bilingualism impedes academic success, th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Salomone, Rosemary C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.