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Direct Democracy And Distrust: The Relationship Between Language Law Rhetoric And The Language Vigilantism Experience, Steven W. Bender
Direct Democracy And Distrust: The Relationship Between Language Law Rhetoric And The Language Vigilantism Experience, Steven W. Bender
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Revitalized after the passage of California's Proposition 187, the English language movement continues its national campaign for restrictive language laws at the local, state, and federal levels of government. Thus far, the English language laws and initiatives adopted or urged have addressed government speech - the language of government employees and of government communications, records, and publications. English language laws adopted by the states have not yet extended to public speech (such as newspapers and other media) or to private speech (such as language in the home). Yet, individuals speaking a language other than English have increasingly come under attack …
Foreword: Toward A Radical And Plural Democracy, Robert S. Chang
Foreword: Toward A Radical And Plural Democracy, Robert S. Chang
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In this foreword, Professor Chang lays the foundation for a discussion on the systematic discrimination built in to the United States democracy. He points out how this foundation caters to the prototypical straight, white male. The foreword ends with how these issues are addressed specifically in the symposium.
Being Between: A Review Of Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora: Memoirs, Essays, And Poetry, Margaret Chon
Being Between: A Review Of Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora: Memoirs, Essays, And Poetry, Margaret Chon
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In this essay Professor Chon reviews Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora: Memoirs, Essays, and Poetry. Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora is the second volume of a series on the theme of "Gender, Culture, and Global Politics." Professor Sharon Hom, who edited this volume, deliberately contextualizes the "I" and "we" that supply the narrative voice and subject in each of these works as specific ethnic, gendered, and generational locations within Asian America. However, Professor Chon illustrates how this anthology is not so much about the "I" as it is about the "we." Professor Horn is engaged in a project of excavating individual histories …