[lingtalks] Ethnolinguistic Vitality in San Diego

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From: "Myrna García" <MyGarcia at ucsd.edu>
To: <csre at weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 7:47 AM
Subject: Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity- Fall 2006 Colloquium


> UCSD Ethnic Studies Department
>
> Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity
>
> Fall 2006 Colloquium
>
> Wednesdays, 3:00 PM,
>
> Social Science Building, Dean's Conference Room 107
>
> ************************************************************************
> October 4, 2006
>
> Ethnolinguistic Vitality in San Diego's Bilingual Communities:
> Undergraduate Research
>
> Language is central to the current anti-immigrant debate in the USA,
> particularly the notion that the dominance of English is threatened,
> especially by Spanish. The research of students in two UCSD Ethnic Studies
> courses, Language and American Ethnicity and Bilingual Communities,
> challenges that view of endangerment and its narrow focus on one group, by
> documenting varying levels of ethnolinguistic vitality in San Diego's many
> bilingual communities. New and old communities alike struggle with the
> loss of heritage languages, divergent attitudes toward that loss, and what
> if anything, can be done on behalf of language revitalization. Determining
> factors include demography, status, and institutional support. Our focus
> is on language use in diverse settings, e.g., stores, parks, schools,
> libraries, restaurants, and temples of worship throughout San Diego
> County. Understanding how members of different speech communities speak to
> each other dismantles popular myths about the fixity of languages and
> identities, and suggests areas of possible pan-ethnic collaboration.
> Twelve communities will be part of our proposed book, but only five
> students present their work at this colloquium:
>
> San Diego's Japanese Markets: A Site for Language and Cultural Maintenance
>        Jane Hashimawari
> Heritage Language Learning and Ethnic Identity in San Diego's Little Italy
> Christina Marino
> Shalom! Hebrew Education in San Diego
>        Amy Edwards
> Negotiating Mixtec Identity in San Diego,
>        Alejandra Maciel
> Russian Students in Downtown San Diego
>        Sophia Wong
>
> Moderator and overview:  Ana Celia Zentella
>
> Future Colloquia:
>
> October 11, 2006
>
> Young Travelers: The Ethnic Transgressions and Pan-ethnic Connections of
> Minority Neighbors in California, 1925-1955
>
> Allison Varzally
>
> History Department
>
> California State University Fullerton
>
>
> October 18, 2006
>
> Tracking Salvadoran Transnationality at the Boundaries of Latino and Latin
> American Studies
>
> Elana Zilberg
>
> Communication Department, UCSD
>
>
> October 25, 2006
>
> University Mediated Academic Achievement: A Tale of Preuss and Gompers
> Schools
>
> Bud Mehan and Cecil Lytle
>
> Sociology and Music Departments, UCSD
>
>
> November 1, 2006
>
> Contexts for Bilingualism Among U.S.-Born Latinos, 1990 and 2000
>
> April Linton and Tomás Jiménez
>
> Sociology Department, UCSD
>
>
> November 8, 2006
>
> National Camera: The Ethnic Difference in Modernizing Mexico
>
> Roberto Tejada
>
> Visual Arts Department, UCSD
>
>
> November 15, 2006
>
> Classifying Race and Ethnicity in Spanish California: Working with the
> Sources
>
> Steve Hackel
>
> History Department, Oregon State University
>
>
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> For more information, please contact:
>
> UCSD Ethnic Studies Department * (858) 534-3276 * ethnicstudies at ucsd.edu *
> www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu <http://www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/>
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