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Author : Victoria M. Patella,William P. Kuvlesky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Mexican American youth
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017839373
Author : Sandra R. Schecter,Robert J. Bayley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135660055
Language as Cultural Practice: Mexicanos en el Norte offers a vivid ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families residing in California and Texas. This account illustrates a variety of cases where language is used by speakers to choose between alternative self-definitions and where language interacts differentially with other defining categories, such as ethnicity, gender, and class. It shows that language socialization--instantiated in language choices and patterns of use in sociocultural and sociohistorical contexts characterized by ambiguity and flux--is both a dynamic and a fluid process. The study emphasizes the links between familial patterns of language use and language socialization practices on the one hand, and children's development of bilingual and biliterate identities on the other. Using a framework emerging from their selection of two geographically distinct localities with differing demographic features, Schecter and Bayley compare patterns of meaning suggested by the use of Spanish and English in speech and literacy activities, as well as by the symbolic importance ascribed by families and societal institutions (such as schools) to the maintenance and use of the two languages. Language as Cultural Practice: *provides a detailed account of the diversity of language practices and patterns of use in language minority homes; *offers educators detailed information on the language ecology of Latino homes in two geographically diverse communities--San Antonio, Texas, and the San Francisco Bay Area, California; *shows the diversity within Mexican-American communities in the United States--families profiled range from rural families in south Texas to upper middle class professional families in northern California; *provides data to correct the prevalent misconception that maintenance of Spanish interferes with the acquisition of English; and *contributes to the study of language socialization by showing that the process extends throughout the lifetime and that it is an interactive rather than a one-way process. This book will particularly interest researchers and professionals in linguistics, anthropology, applied linguistics, and education, and will be useful as a text in graduate courses in these areas that address language socialization and learning.
Author : Glenn A. Mart’nez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816523746
When political activists rallied for the abolition of bilingual education and even called for the declaration of English as an official language, Mexican Americans and other immigrant groups saw this as an assault on their heritage and civil rights. Because language is such a defining characteristic of Mexican American ethnicity, nearly every policy issue that touches their lives involves language in one way or another. This book offers an overview of some of the central issues in the Mexican American language experience, describing it in terms of both bilingualism and minority status. It is the first book to focus on the historical, social, political, and structural aspects of multiple languages in the Mexican American experience and to address the principles and methods of applied sociolinguistic research in the Mexican American community. Spanish and non-Spanish speakers in the Mexican American community share a common set of social and ethnic bonds. They also share a common experience of bilingualism. As MartA-nez observes, the ideas that have been constructed around bilingualism are as important to understanding the Mexican American language experience as bilingualism itself. Mexican Americans and Language gives students the background they need to respond to the multiple social problems that can result from the language differences that exist in the Mexican American community. By showing students how to go from word to deed (del dicho al hecho), it reinforces the importance of language for their community, and for their own lives and futures.
Author : Frank D. Bean,Gray Swicegood
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292769786
The Mexican American population is the fastest growing major racial/ethnic group in the United States. During the decade 1970–1980, the Mexican origin population increased from 4.5 million to 8.7 million persons. High fertility, not immigration, was responsible for nearly two-thirds of this growth. Recent and historical evidence shows that women of Mexican origin or descent bear significantly more children than other white women in the United States. Mexican American Fertility Patterns clarifies the nature and magnitude of these fertility differences by analyzing patterns of childbearing both across ethnic groups and within the Mexican American population. Using data from the 1970 and 1980 U.S. Censuses and from the 1976 Survey of Income and Education, the authors evaluate various hypotheses of cultural, social, demographic, and/or economic factors as determinants of fertility differences. Empirical analyses center on the interrelationships between fertility and generational status, language usage and proficiency, and female education. This timely report concludes that Mexican American fertility is closest to that of other whites under conditions of greater access to the opportunity structures of the society.
Author : George Carpenter Barker
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1972-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816503179
Social Functions of Language in a Mexican-American Community is an inquiry into how language functions in the life of a bilingual minority group in process of cultural change, this study investigated the acculturation and assimilation of individuals of Mexican descent living in Tucson, Arizona. Specifically, the language usage and interpersonal relations of individuals from representative families in the bilingual community of Tucson, the usage of bilingual social groups in the community, and the linguistic and cultural contacts between bilinguals and members of the larger Tucson community were examined. Data were drawn from observational studies of individuals and families; observation of group activities; and observation of, supplemented by questionnaires on, the cultural interests of Mexican children and their families. Some conclusions of the study were that Spanish came to be identified in the Mexican community as the language of intimate and family relations, while English came to be identified as the language of formal social relations and of all relations with Anglos. It was also found that the younger American-born group reject both Spanish and English in favor of their own language, Pachuco. Tables depicting the characteristics of 20 families, the language usage of families, and the language usage in personal relationships of English and Spanish are included. Suggestions for further research are made.
Author : Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez,Andrew D. Cohen,Anthony F. Beltramo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015005534337
Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Hispanic Americans
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017930613
Author : United States. Housing and Urban Development Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754081252219
Author : Mary C. Waters,Reed Ueda,Helen B. Marrow
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674268272
Listen to a short interview with Mary WatersHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane Salsa has replaced ketchup as the most popular condiment. A mosque has been erected around the corner. The local hospital is staffed by Indian doctors and Philippine nurses, and the local grocery store is owned by a Korean family. A single elementary school may include students who speak dozens of different languages at home. This is a snapshot of America at the turn of the twenty-first century. The United States has always been a nation of immigrants, shaped by successive waves of new arrivals. The most recent transformation began when immigration laws and policies changed significantly in 1965, admitting migrants from around the globe in new numbers and with widely varying backgrounds and aspirations. This comprehensive guide, edited and written by an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars, provides an authoritative account of the most recent surge of immigrants. Twenty thematic essays address such topics as immigration law and policy, refugees, unauthorized migrants, racial and ethnic identity, assimilation, nationalization, economy, politics, religion, education, and family relations. These are followed by comprehensive articles on immigration from the thirty most significant nations or regions of origin. Based on the latest U.S. Census data and the most recent scholarly research, The New Americans is an essential reference for students, scholars, and anyone curious about the changing face of America.
Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Mexican Americans
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173025414711
Author : Frank A. Fratoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Education, Rural
ISBN : UCR:31210023554361
Author : Nicolàs Kanellos,Claudia Esteva-Fabregat,Thomas Weaver
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1611921619
Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project is a national project to locate, identify, preserve and make accessible the literary contributions of U.S. Hispanics from colonial times through 1960 in what today comprises the fifty states of the United States.
Author : Rodolfo G. Serrano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Bilingualism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039455147
Author : Joseph H. Matluck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : English language
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173025440482
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:20000003904394
