I am my language : discourses of women & children in the borderlands /

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Author / Creator:González, Norma.
Imprint:Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2001.
Description:xxii, 220 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4500646
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ISBN:0816518939 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-213) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Tucson: A Place in the Borderlands
  • The Borderlands
  • 2. Las Familias
  • The Discarding of Paradigm
  • Methods and Participants: The How and the Who
  • The Pilot Study
  • Interviewing
  • 3. When the Facts Won't Stay Put: Finding Emotion in All the Wrong Places
  • 4. The Hearts of the Children: Emotion, Language, and Identity
  • Emotion as Examinable
  • Disambiguation and the Construction of Selfhood
  • A Metaphor for Language Use: The Dialogical Staircase, an Interactional Double Helix
  • Disambiguation and Self-Authorship
  • 5. Negotiating Ideologies across Social Memories
  • Women and Language
  • Gender Ideologies and Bailes Folkloricois
  • 6. Testimonies of Border Identities: "Una mujer acomedida donde quiera cabe"
  • Native-born and Immigrant Households
  • The Fracturing of Gender Ideologies
  • 7. Household Language Use: The Push and the Pull
  • Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Language Use
  • 8. Where's the Culture?
  • Latinos and Culture
  • Culture and "Multicultural Awareness"
  • Processual Approaches to Culture
  • Culture in the Borderlands
  • If Not Culture, Then What?
  • Language and Culture
  • From "Language and Culture" to Language Ideologies
  • 9. Beyond the "Disuniting" of America: Implications for Schooling and Public Policy
  • Implications for Educational Public Policy and Schooling
  • The Dialectics of the Centripetal and the Centrifugal
  • Weaving the Threads Together.