Lexington Books
Pages: 112
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-0-7391-9361-7 • Hardback • May 2015 • $101.00 • (£78.00)
978-0-7391-9362-4 • eBook • May 2015 • $96.00 • (£74.00)
Kami Anderson is associate professor in the Department of Digital Writing and Media Arts and the assistant director of the Marietta campus for the Undergraduate Honors Program for the Honors College at Kennesaw State University.
- African American Collective Identity and Language: A Cultural Chasm1
- Hip Hop, Post-soul and Language: A Generational Shift in Language and Identity13
- The Product is My Standpoint: A Personal Reflection25
- Teaching Family Ideology and Family Identity33
- Communicating Identity as a Family49
- Defining African American Bilingual Family Ideology: A Family Reflection59
- Our Black is Noir and Negro 70
- Look Mamí! El Fish es Over Ya! - Raising a Bilingual/Bicultural Child
in a Monolingual Context: A Family Reflection87- Through Generations: The Linguistic Legacy of Identity101
- Conclusion110
Next steps : A Family Reflection
Language, Identity, and Choice: Raising Bilingual Children in a Global Society offers, through vibrant personal reflections and scholarly research, a valuable treatise on the promotion of second language and trans-cultural studies among African Americans. Those wishing to engender in their children and in their communities the positive benefits of bilingualism and intercultural literacy will find this text informative and entertaining.
— James J. Davis, Howard University