Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States by Gellman, Mneesha
Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States by Gellman, Mneesha

Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States

Public school classrooms around the world have the power to shape and transform youth culture and identity....
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Author: Mneesha Gellman
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Language: English
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Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States by Gellman, Mneesha

Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States

$1,700.71
Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States by Gellman, Mneesha

Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States

$1,700.71
Author: Mneesha Gellman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

Public school classrooms around the world have the power to shape and transform youth culture and identity. In this book, Mneesha Gellman examines how Indigenous high school students resist assimilation and assert their identities through access to Indigenous language classes in public schools. Drawing on ethnographic accounts, qualitative interviews, focus groups, and surveys, Gellman's fieldwork examines and compares the experiences of students in Yurok language courses in Northern California and Zapotec courses in Oaxaca, Mexico. She contends that this access to Indigenous language instruction in secondary schooling serves as an arena for Indigenous students to develop their sense of identity and agency, and provides them tools and strategies for civic, social, and political participation, sometimes in unexpected ways.

Showcasing young people's voices, and those of their teachers and community members, in the fight for culturally relevant curricula and educational success, Gellman demonstrates how the Indigenous language classroom enables students to understand, articulate, and resist the systemic erasure and destruction of their culture embedded in state agendas and educational curricula. Access to Indigenous language education, she shows, has positive effects not only for Indigenous students, but for their non-Indigenous peers as well, enabling them to become allies in the struggle for Indigenous cultural survival. Through collaborative methodology that engages in research with, not on, Indigenous communities, Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom explores what it means to be young, Indigenous, and working for social change in the twenty-first century.

Author: Mneesha Gellman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780812254044
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