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Reading Asian American and Latino literature, Bilingual Brokers traces the shift in attitudes toward bilingualism in postwar America from the focus on cultural assimilation to that of resource management. Interweaving the social significance of language as human capital and the literary significance of English as the language of cultural capital, Jeehyun Lim examines the dual meaning of bilingualism as liability and asset in relation to anxieties surrounding “new” immigration and globalization.Using the work of Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Américo Paredes, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, Chang-rae Lee, Julia Alvarez, and Ha Jin as examples, Lim reveals how bilingual personhood illustrates a regime of flexible inclusion where an economic calculus of one’s value crystallizes at the intersections of language and racial difference. By pointing to the nexus of race, capital, and language as the focal point of postwar negotiations of difference and inclusion, Bilingual Brokers probes the faultlines of postwar liberalism in conceptualizing and articulating who is and is not considered to be an American.
American literature --- Bilingualism --- Language and languages --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Hispanic American authors --- History and criticism. --- Asian American authors --- History --- Asian American literature. --- Latino literature. --- bilingual personhood. --- flexible inclusion. --- language difference. --- multiculturalism. --- postwar liberalism.
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Contesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality, The Problem of Jobs reveals that such efforts did not collapse after the New Deal but instead began to flourish at the local, rather than the national, level.With a focus on Philadelphia, this volume illuminates the central role of these local political and policy struggles in shaping the fortunes of city and citizen alike. In the process, it tells the remarkable story of how Philadelphia's policymakers and community activists energetically worked to c
Manpower policy --- Job creation --- History --- History --- Philadelphia (Pa.) --- Politics and government --- employment, postwar, liberalism, unemployment, economic inequality, poverty, labor, new deal, policy, local government, state, philadelphia, urban, community activism, deindustrialization, affirmative action, business development, inner city, training programs, job retention, race, systemic racism, intervention, regulation, legislation, nonfiction, economics, history, manpower, planning, civil rights, oic, racial conflict, model cities.
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