{"product_id":"speaking-american-language-education-and-citizenship-in-twentieth-century-los-angeles-paperback-softback-9780806167398","title":"Speaking American; Language Education and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (Paperback \/ softback) 9780806167398","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSpeaking American\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLanguage Education and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eZevi Gutfreund (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780806167398\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 25 August 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e308 pages, 21 black \u0026amp; white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.445 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this illuminating historical account, Zevi Gutfreund posits that formal language education served as a vector through which Angelinos—those who possessed social capital and those who aspired to it—sought to articulate and shape notions of US citizenship in the twentieth century. Gutfreund uncovers the ways teachers, parents, and students challenged Americanization and English-only campaigns and brought to bear their own aspirations for national belonging. \u003ci\u003eSpeaking American\u003c\/i\u003e proves quite salient and timely as California continues to both reify and undermine national xenophobic currents in American immigration politics.\" —Clif Stratton, author of \u003ci\u003eEducation for Empire: American Schools, Race, and the Paths of Good Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSpeaking American \u003c\/i\u003easks critical questions about identity, Americanization, education, and young people. In telling this complex and important story—difficult, disappointing, and uplifting at the various twists and turns of Los Angeles history—Zevi Gutfreund explores how and why L.A. was at the epicenter of twentieth-century Americanization debates and struggles. He renders the always-complex social and racial arenas of metropolitan L.A. with clarity and scholarly acuity.\" —William Deverell, author of \u003ci\u003eWhitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Our understanding of American identities and educational reform has broadened significantly in recent years, as scholars have increasingly identified schools as sites of ongoing negotiation between students, teachers, diverse communities, and reformers. In telling the multiple ways in which Angelenos understood what it meant to “speak American,” Gutfreund’s book adds important insight regarding how language remained—and remains—a critical part of this negotiation.\" —\u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhen Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, language learning became a touchstone in the emerging culture wars. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Los Angeles, where elected officials from both political parties had supported the legislation, and where the most disruptive protests over it occurred. The city, with its diverse population of Latinos and Asian Americans, is the ideal locus for Zevi Gutfreund's study of how language instruction informed the social construction of American citizenship. Combining the history of language instruction, school desegregation, and civil rights activism as it unfolded in Japanese American and Mexican American communities in L.A., this timely book clarifies the critical and evolving role of language instruction in twentieth-century American politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeaking American\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how, for generations, language instruction offered a forum for Angelino educators to articulate their responses to policies that racialized access to citizenship - from the 'national origins' immigration quotas of the Progressive Era through Congress's removal of race from these quotas in 1965. Meanwhile, immigrant communities designed language experiments to counter efforts to limit their liberties. Gutfreund's book is the first to place the experiences of Mexican Americans and Japanese Americans side by side as they navigated debates over Americanization programs, intercultural education, school desegregation, and bilingual education. In the process, the book shows, these language experiments helped Angelino immigrants introduce competing concepts of citizenship that were tied to their actions and deeds rather than to the English language itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Complicating the usual top-down approach to the history of racial politics in education, \u003ci\u003eSpeaking American\u003c\/i\u003e recognizes the ways in which immigrant and ethnic activists, as well as white progressives and conservatives, have been deeply invested in controlling public and private aspects of language instruction in Los Angeles. The book brings compelling analytic depth and breadth to its examination of the social and political landscape in a city still at the epicenter of American immigration politics.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551745405208,"sku":"9780806167398","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/speaking-american-language-education-and-citizenship-in-twentieth-century-los-angeles-paperback-softback-9780806167398","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}