Mogadishu on the Mississippi: language, racialized identity, and education in a new land

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 andfor the integration of advocacy and research INDICE: Series Editors Foreword. Acknowledgements. 1. Engaged Scholarship in the Somali Communities of Minnesota. 2. Orality and Literacy within the Somali Diaspora. 3. Multilingualism and Multiliteracy among Somali Adolescent Girls.

• ISBN: 978-1-4443-3874-4
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 22/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés