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| Foreword | |
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| Student Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: The Unspoken Issue That Silences Americans | |
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| The Child's Struggle against Silencing | |
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| "Cut into Me" | |
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| "The Girl Who Wouldn't Sing" | |
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| "Prospectus" | |
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| "Learning Silence" | |
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| from Always Running | |
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| from Lost in Translation | |
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| "Name Giveaway" | |
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| "Masks and Acculturation" | |
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| "Aria" | |
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| "Language and Consciousness" | |
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| "Back in Those Days" | |
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| "Indian Boy Love Song (#2)" | |
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| "Wasicuia ya he? Do you speak English?" | |
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| "Off Reservation Blues" | |
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| "Que dice? Que dice? Child Translators and the Power of Language" | |
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| "No Questions Asked" | |
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| "Me Talk Pretty One Day" | |
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| "The Silence of Polyglots" | |
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| from "voz en una carcel" | |
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| from The Woman Warrior | |
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| The History of Silencing Children | |
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| Chronology of Events, Court Decisions, and Legislation Affecting Language Minority Children in American Public Education | |
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| The Potential and Vulnerability of Multilingual Children | |
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| "The Failure to Educate Immigrant Children" | |
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| from 36 Children | |
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| "Today's Deficit Thinking about the Education of Minority Students" | |
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| "Academic Ignorance and Black Intelligence" | |
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| "Beginning Where the Children Are" | |
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| excerpt from "Translating Translation: Finding the Beginning" | |
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| Mother Tongue | |
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| "Elena" | |
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| from Healing Earthquakes | |
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| "Mother Tongue" | |
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| "Lakota Words" | |
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| "Immigrants" | |
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| "My Hawai'i" | |
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| "Chief Wachuseh" | |
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| "Translation" | |
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| "Bilingual Cognates" | |
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| "Learning to Trust the Language I Thought I'd Left Behind" | |
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| Excellence and Neglect in the Schooling of Multilingual Children | |
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| "Principles of Successful Schools for Multilingual Children" | |
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| "The Best Multilingual Schools" | |
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| "The Four Spokes of the Second Language Learning Wheel" | |
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| "Teaching Multilingual Children" | |
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| "Suite for Ebony and Phonics: Reflections on African American English" | |
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| "What Should Teachers Do about Ebonics?" | |
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| Rage, Regret, and Resistance | |
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| "I Want to Write an American Poem II" | |
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| "Teaching New Worlds/New Words" | |
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| "Desmet, Idaho, March 1969" | |
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| "Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers" | |
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| "Two Languages in Mind, but Just One in the Heart" | |
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| "Mi Problema" | |
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| "Linguistic Terrorism" | |
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| "I Recognize You" | |
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| "The New World" | |
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| "I Want to Write an American Poem III" | |
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| "Speaking Spanglish" | |
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| "English con Salsa" | |
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| Sources and Permissions | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |