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“We All Live in One World”: Challenging Settler Mythologies With Sovereign Assertions

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines how settler colonial myths perpetuate systemic inequities in the education of Native students in Southern Utah. It critiques the “two‐worlds” narrative used to justify marginalization and explores how Native parents use sovereign assertions to challenge these injustices.
Cynthia Benally, Donna Deyhle, Beth King
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Ghosts, Potlucks and Government Forms: Poetic Explorations of the Transnational Bilingual Educator Experience in the USA

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT These poems were written in a poetry seminar for education researchers and build on themes that emerged from my dissertation study of Dual Language Immersion Spanish teachers. In interviews, teachers surfaced feelings of ambivalence and in‐betweenness as they toggled between languages, cultural tastes, past and present educational experiences,
Elizabeth Dubberly
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“See, Your Grandma Has Two Mother Tongues…or Only One?”: Shame, Dialect, and Shifting Mother Tongues in Sicily

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Sicilian town of Palermo, two main languages are spoken, Italian and Sicilian. But people are often unwilling to consider Sicilian a language, taking it instead as an inferior “dialect.” Linguistic choice is associated with two broad, competing discourses about Sicilian culture and ethnicity: discourses of heritage on the one hand and ...
Paola Tiné
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Sign Language as “Mother Tongue Orphan”: A Challenge to Raciolinguistic Multiculturalism in Singapore

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the contested status of “sign language” in Singapore by exploring deaf people's experiences of the “Mother Tongues”—the state's designation for the official languages of Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil—with a particular focus on the relationships that deaf Chinese Singaporeans have with Mandarin.
Timothy Y. Loh
wiley   +1 more source

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