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Activism
ADAPT
Affirmative action
Amendment
Americanization
Americans
Author_Deborah J. Schildkraut
Balkanization
Ballot
Bilingual education
Bilingual Education Act
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Citizenship
Citizenship of the United States
Confirmatory factor analysis
Cultural assimilation
Culture of the United States
Due Process Clause
Education
English as a second or foreign language
English law
English Plus
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eq_dictionaries-language-reference
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Equal opportunity
Ethnic option
First language
Focus group
Freedom of speech
H-1B visa
Ideology
Immigration
Immigration law
Immigration policy
Individual and group rights
Individualism
Language policy
Language politics
Lau v. Nichols
Legislation
Liberalism
Literacy test
Multiculturalism
Murray Edelman
National identity
National symbol
Nativism (politics)
Naturalization
Of Education
Official language
Opposition to immigration
Original intent
Participant
Peter Brimelow
Politics
Printing
Proclamation
Progressive Era
Questionnaire
Remedial education
Republicanism
Respondent
Rhetoric
Rogers Smith
Separatism
Seymour Martin Lipset
Society of the United States
Tax
The American Voter
Thesis
Transitional bilingual education
U.S. English (organization)
United States
Voting
Product details
- ISBN 9780691130576
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Feb 2007
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Press "ONE" for English examines how Americans form opinions on language policy issues such as declaring English the official language, printing documents in multiple languages, and bilingual education. Deborah Schildkraut shows that people's conceptions of American national identity play an integral role in shaping their views. Using insights from American political thought and intellectual history, she highlights several components of that identity and shows how they are brought to bear on debates about language. Her analysis expands the range of factors typically thought to explain attitudes in such policy areas, emphasizing in particular the role that civic republicanism's call for active and responsible citizenship plays in shaping opinion on language issues. Using focus groups and survey data, Schildkraut develops a model of public conceptions of what it means to be American and demonstrates the complex ways in which people draw on these conceptions when forming and explaining their views. In so doing she illustrates how focus group methodology can help yield vital new insights into opinion formation.
With the rise in the use of ballot initiatives to implement language policies, understanding opinion formation in this policy area has become imperative. This book enhances our understanding of this increasingly pressing concern, and points the way toward humane, effective, and broadly popular language policies that address the realities of American demographics in the twenty-first century while staying true to the nation's most revered values.
Deborah J. Schildkraut is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tufts University.
