Mogadishu on the Mississippi: Language, Racialized Identity, and Education in a New Land

Bigelow, Martha H.; Ortega, Lourdes

• Investigates the language learning, multiple literacy development, and schooling and community experiences of the Somali population in Minnesota - a community which is Muslim, refugee, and under-schooled
• Brings together five years of interdisciplinary research, drawing upon theories from the fields of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, education, and sociology
• Uses a range of epistemological frames to explore central and contemporary problems that tie language learning to racialized, religious, and gendered identities
• Argues for the centrality of socio-political contexts in language learning and for the integration of advocacy and research

Details

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2010-09-14

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781444338744

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Dimensions: 228.6cm x152.9cm

Pages: 200.0