Book Reviews: Growing up bilingual. Puerto Rican children in New York

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-113
Author(s):  
Annick De Houwer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-182

New Money, Nice Town: How Capital Works in the New Urban Economy, by Leonard Nevarez. New York: Routledge, 2003. National Performances: The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago, by Ana Y. Ramos‐Zayas. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2003. x + 245 pages. Maps, illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 0‐226‐70359‐2 (paper). Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community, by William Sites. University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 260 pp. City: Urbanism and Its End, by Douglas W. Rae. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. xix + 516 pp. ISBN 0‐300‐09577‐5.


1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 436-437
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Grace Winkler

“Hablamos los dos. We speak both (p. 1).” A statement offered by a 9-year-old girl defines the principle assertion of this book: Bilinguals have available to them at least two distinct repertoires of language that they are able to manipulate and mix to achieve their unique discourse needs and to express their multicultural identities. This book explores the network of relationships of 20 Puerto Rican families in a low-income neighborhood called el bloque in New York City. Zentella, herself a Nuyorican (New York Puerto Rican), has provided us a window on a world as only an insider can. She follows the families in and out of el bloque for 13 years, monitoring their bilingual behavior and the sociolinguistic factors that contribute to maintenance or loss of bilingual ability.


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