1. ‘The Making of an American’: Negotiation of Identities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Introduction: New Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts 1
6. 1. ‘The Making of an American’: Negotiation of Identities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 34
7. 2. Constructions of Identity in Political Discourse in Multilingual Britain 68
8. 3. Negotiating Between Bourge and Racaille: Verlan as Youth Identity Practice in Suburban Paris 93
9. 4. Black Deaf or Deaf Black? Being Black and Deaf in Britain 125
10. 5. Mothers and Mother Tongue: Perspectives on Self-Construction by Mothers of Pakistani Heritage 161
11. 6. The Politics of Identity, Representation, and the Discourses of Self-identification: Negotiating the Periphery and the Center 192
12. 7. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Foreign Language Learning and Identity Reconstruction 219
13. 8. Intersections of Literacy and Construction of Social Identities 243
14. 9. Multilingual Writers and the Struggle for Voice in Academic Discourse 266
15. 10. Identity and Language Use: The Politics of Speaking ESL in Schools 290
16. 11. Sending Mixed Messages: Language Minority Education at a Japanese Public Elementary School 316
17. Index 339