Latin@ Education and Poverty
Maria E. Barajas, once a Mexican immigrant child placed in remedial classes because of her “language problems,” has focused her interest in bilingual policy through Harvard Graduate …
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Theme: Culture
Costilla County, Colorado
An enduring legacy of the Southwest is its diversity of urban and rural landscapes. Albuquerque, San Antonio, and Tucson are symbolic of the evolution of rural spaces engulfed by growth …
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Connecting with U.S. Hispanics
Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez at the Grammy Awards. Sammy Sosa in another home run race. George W. Bush and Al Gore giving campaign speeches in Spanish. The Taco Bell Chihuahua. …
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Becoming Latin@s
In California hospitals today, the name most often given to baby boys is José. No wonder there is talk of México’s reconquista of that vast area of the Southwest that it had lost to the United States in 1848….
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Bilingual Aesthetics
How does one language interrupt another? How do different languages simultaneously inhabit the same space? How do language games threaten monolinguism? More than a hundred …
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