Books

The Bridge Generation Grows Up examines how daughters of Hmong refugees growing up in America develop skills to read and write across languages and cultures. Kaia L. Simon demonstrates how a childhood spent bridging languages and cultures leads members of this community to relocate Hmong language, literacy, and culture for ...

Writing against Racial Injury recalls the story of Asian American student rhetoric at the site of language and literacy education in post-1960s California. What emerged in the Asian American movement was a recurrent theme in U.S. history: conflicts over language and literacy difference masked wider racial tensions. Bringing ...

In an age of global anxiety and suspicion, South Asian immigrants juggle multiple cultural and literate traditions in Mid-South America. In this study Iswari P. Pandey looks deeply into this community to track the migration of literacies, showing how different meaning-making practices are adapted and reconfigured for cross-language relations and ...