Title: Teaching for Biliteracy: Strengthening Bridges Between Languages
Authors: Karen Beeman & Chery Urow
Publisher: Brookes Pub
ISBN-13: 978-1934000090
Beeman and Urow introduce the powerful notion of the Bridge to the biliteracy field in this practical professional development guide for teachers, administrators, and leadership teams. The Bridge is the instructional moment when teachers purposefully bring the two languages together, strategically guiding bilingual learners to transfer the academic content they have learned in one language to the other, engage in contrastive analysis, develop academic English and Spanish across the content areas, read and write grade-level texts across the curriculum, and develop metalinguistic awareness.
Title: Bilingualism (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
Author:Penelope Gardner
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN-13: 978-0262549431
Nearly half the world's people are bilingual, but many have no clear understanding of what—aside from being fluent in more than one language—bilingualism means. This lively introduction by linguist Penelope Gardner-Chloros covers everything a bilingual (or curious monolingual) individual might want to know. The book discusses how bilingualism affects brain development and performance in the young and old, its social and political significance throughout time and around the globe, and how people experience and describe it.
Title: Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language – An Exploration of the Creative Spanish-English Hybrid Shaping Latino Culture
Author: Ilan Stavans
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN-13: 978-0060087760
With the release of the 2000census figures, Latino America was anointed the future driving force of American culture. The emergence of Spanglish as a form of communication is one of the most influential markers of an America gone Latino. Spanish, present on this continent since the fifteenth century, has become ubiquitous in the last few decades. The nation's unofficial second language, it is highly visible on several 24-hour TV networks and on more than 200 radio stations across the country.
Title: Becoming Bilingual Readers
Author: Bobbie Kabuto
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0367492090
This book explores how identity impacts the development of bilingual readers and how reading practices are mediated by family and community contexts. Highlighting readers from Spanish, Greek, Japanese, and English language backgrounds, Kabuto offers an interdisciplinary analysis through the original approach of Biographic Biliteracy Profiles. This culturally relevant assessment tool reveals how bilingual readers make sense of texts in home and school environments, exploring the roles of code-switching and translanguaging and how families, communities, and identity shape reading behaviors and meaning-making.
Title: Strangers No Longer, Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin
Author: Sergio M. González
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-08794-3
Hospitality practices grounded in religious belief have long influenced Wisconsin's Latino communities. Sergio M. González examines the power relations at work behind hospitality practices toward newcomers in Milwaukee and rural areas of the Badger state. His analysis addresses the foundational role of religion and sacred spaces in shaping experiences, facilitating collaboration across Latino groups and ethnic lines, and providing moral justification for social justice movements. He also explores how sacred spaces evolved into places for mitigating prejudice and social alienation, providing sanctuary from nativism and repression, and fostering local and transnational community building.
Title: In Search of Belonging, Latinas, Media, and Citizenship
Author: Jillian M. Báez
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-08341-9
In Search of Belonging explores how Latina/o audiences, and women in particular, make sense of and engage mainstream and Spanish-language media. Jillian M. Báez's ethnographic analysis draws on the experiences of diverse Latinas in Chicago. In-depth interviews reveal Latinas in Chicago viewing media images through a lens of citizenship, searching for recognition and belonging through representations of Latinas in films, advertising, telenovelas, and TV shows like Ugly Betty and Modern Family. Báez’s research creates a fascinating portrait that privileges women's perspectives as they consume media in complex, unpredictable ways.
Title: Peruvian Lives across Borders, Power, Exclusion, and Home
Author: M. Cristina Alcalde
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-08346-4
In this volume, M. Cristina Alcalde examines the evolution of belonging and the making of home among middle- and upper-class Peruvians in Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany. Alcalde draws on interviews, surveys, participant observation, and textual analysis to argue that to belong is to exclude. To that end, transnational Peruvians engage in both subtle and direct policing along the borders of belonging. These acts allow them to claim and maintain the social status they enjoyed in their homeland Deeply researched and theoretically daring, Peruvian Lives across Borders answers fascinating questions about an understudied group of migrants.
Title: Negotiating Latinidad, Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago
Author: Frances R. Aparicio
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-05155-5
In this book, a cross section of Chicago’s second-generation Intralatino/as offer their experiences of negotiating among the national communities embedded in their families. Frances R. Aparicio’s interviews reveal Intralatino/as proud of understanding difference and boundaries. Their narratives explore the ongoing complexities of family life and the challenges of fitting into our larger society, in particular the struggle to claim a space-and a sense of belonging-in a Latina/o America that remains highly segmented in scholarship. The result is an emotionally powerful exploration of culture, hybridity, and transnationalism that points the way forward for scholarship on Intralatino/a identity.
