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Los demasiados libros (Colección Argumentos/anagrama Ser. #Vol. 183)
by Gabriel ZaidReflexión aguda, sensata, amorosa que deben leer lectores, autores, editores, libreros... Una nueva edición, corregida y aumentada. Hay en la experiencia de leer una felicidad y libertad que resultan adictivas. La lectura libera. Se extiende a leer la vida, a leer quiénes somos y en dónde estamos. Anima las conversaciones de lector a lector. Se contagia por los lectores en acción: padres, maestros, amigos, escritores, traductores, críticos, editores, tipógrafos, libreros, bibliotecarios y otros promotores del vicio de leer. "Gabriel Zaid es capaz de observar el mundo de las letras desde la perspectiva otorgada por otras disciplinas. Su gran acierto es la virtud del poeta: decir lo que oscuramente habíamos intuido sin alcanzar a formularlo en palabras. Señala que el verdadero problema del libro es que el estrato privilegiado que ha hecho estudios universitarios no lee: nunca le ha dado el golpe a la lectura, nunca ha llegado a saber realmente lo que es leer. Esto, que sepamos, nadie lo había dicho." José Emilio Pacheco
Los demasiados libros
by Gabriel ZaidHay en la experiencia de leer una felicidad y libertad que resultan adictivas. La lectura libera. Se extiende a leer la vida, a leer quiénes somos y en dónde estamos. Anima las conversaciones de lector a lector. Se contagia por los lectores en acción: padres, maestros, amigos, escritores, traductores, críticos, editores, tipógrafos, libreros, bibliotecarios y otros promotores del vicio de leer. Gabriel Zaid es capaz de observar el mundo de las letras desde la perspectiva otorgada por otras disciplinas. Su gran acierto es la virtud del poeta: decir lo que oscuramente habíamos intuido sin alcanzar a formularlo en palabras. Señala que el verdadero problema del libro es que el estrato privilegiado que ha hecho estudios universitarios no lee: nunca le ha dado el golpe a la lectura, nunca ha llegado a saber realmente lo que es leer. Esto, que sepamos, nadie lo había dicho.
La economía presidencial
by Gabriel Zaid"El desastre económico acumulado no tuvo como origen los genes supuestamente ineptos, perezosos y corruptos de los mexicanos. Tampoco la adversidad, ni la maldad extranjera. Se fue gestando por una solución política que se volvió un problema económico." La economía mexicana padeció los excesos del presidencialismo que todavía estamos pagando. La nueva era económica fue inaugurada por Luis Echeverría al declarar que las finanzas se manejan desde Los Pinos. Así fue, y así nos fue. Esta nueva edición cubre el ciclo completo de la economía presidencial: desde Echeverría hasta Zedillo (1970-2000), con referencias obvias a la situación actual.
Empresarios oprimidos
by Gabriel ZaidHacen falta empresarios creadores de empresarios. Que separen sus operaciones separables. Que favorezcan el desarrollo, no a la absorción o estrangulación, de proveedores y contratistas. Que vendan todo lo que hace falta para la producción de buena calidad en pequeña escala. En la crisis actual los empresarios se encuentran ante una oportunidad extraordinaria para multiplicarse y mostrar lo que realmente pueden hacer por la sociedad. "Un puesto de tacos le conviene más al país que un puesto burocrático, pero los altos funcionarios suponen que sus propios empleos son el modelo al que aspira la humanidad. Sus buenas intenciones perpetúan la pobreza. Muchos anhelos de justicia han pintado a los pobres como asalariados oprimidos por empresarios desalmados. Son más bien empresarios oprimidos por asalariados bien intencionados que no saben verlos ni apoyarlos como empresarios. Desafiando las ideas empleocéntricas convencionales, Zaid ve la solución en los pobres como empresarios." Enrique Krauze "De los ensayistas mexicanos que escriben sobre el desarrollo, Gabriel Zaid tiene el ojo más certero y el punto de vista más fresco. Ecléctico y pragmático, descarta la ideología para concentrarse en las ideas que funcionen y ofrezcan una esperanza razonable de mejoría social o económica." Martin S. Staab, The dissenting voice: The new essay of Spanish America, 1960-1985 Esta nueva versión de Hacen falta empresarios creadores de empresarios conserva 23 capítulos y añade 33, todos revisados.
Leer poesía
by Gabriel ZaidEn este volumen, integrado por ensayos breves, concentrados y aleccionadores, Gabriel Zaid enfoca su atención siempre viva, su inteligencia siempre despierta, en poetas individuales, movimientos poéticos y aspectos de la poesía y su peculiar estética. Leer por gusto es el método que propone este libro que habla de poesía como los amigos que salen platicando de ver una película. Puede servir como una introducción al arte de leer poesía, especialmente mexicana, pero no es un tratado, sino una conversación de lector a lector. Octavio Paz, Ramón Xirau, Carlos Fuentes y Salvador Elizondo dieron el Premio Villaurrutia a Leer poesía en 1972. Esta nueva versión incluye artículos publicados de 1966 a 2009. "A la curiosidad con que se acerca a los temas junta la franqueza en las opiniones." Alí Chumacero "Todas las páginas de Leer poesía muestran ingenio, perspicacia, lucidez." Jaime García Terrés "Juicios rápidos y casi siempre certeros: Zaid duda de Reyes poeta pero no lo niega; se entusiasma con razón por la poesía de los judíos españoles; nos llega a convencer de que 'El brindis del bohemio' es mejor (menos malo) que el 'Nocturno a Rosario'; escribe la nota más inteligente que se haya escrito sobre la poesía de Isabel Fraire." Tomás Segovia
Mil palabras
by Gabriel ZaidMuchas palabras llaman la atención por sí mismas. Despiertan la curiosidad, los comentarios y luego el uso intencionado. En todas las lenguas hay juegos de palabras, chistes basados en un doble sentido y observaciones lingüísticas. En los periódicos, la radio, la televisión y la web hay secciones dedicadas a comentar palabras. Muchos lectores resuelven crucigramas o pruebas sobre el significado de una palabra. Los diccionarios se inventaron hace más de 4,000 años. Éste es un libro para aficionados a observar palabras, como los hay que observan pájaros. Comenta más de un millar por el simple gusto de hacerlo. Se puede leer de cabo a rabo o en cualquier orden. Comparte con el lector curioso la felicidad de observar. La lista de más de 200 diccionarios consultados es una guía de interés para el lector y permite simplificar su mención en los capítulos correspondientes. Hay aparte una lista platicada de los diccionarios especialmente recomendables. Y un índice alfabético de las palabras comentadas. De Gabriel Zaid hemos publicado una docena de libros en la colección Debolsillo.
La poesía en la práctica
by Gabriel ZaidClásico libro de ensayos de una de las figuras más importantes del medio intelectual mexicano, Gabriel Zaid. Hay que ver la poesía en la práctica: en el mundo del trabajo y los negocios, del prestigio social y el poder político, de la ingeniería y las computadoras, de la vida amorosa y cotidiana. La inspiración creadora no sólo hace versos: sopla y lo mueve todo. En ese movimiento, la práctica no es algo estrecho, mecánico y sin misterio, sino creación; y la poesía es práctica: hace más habitable el mundo. La argumentación rigurosa y elegante de Zaid hace ver la naturaleza del acto creador. "Éste es un ensayo estimulante cuya lectura nos vuelve conscientes, de una manera curiosamente personal, de los procesos a los cuales se refiere. Zaid tiene una mente original y una profunda convicción en la normalidad de la experiencia artística. Deja con ganas de ver más de su obra." The Times Literary Supplement, 14 de noviembre de 1968 Los ensayos de este libro fueron publicados por primera vez entre 1963 y 1967. Han sido escritos nuevamente para esta edición.
El progreso improductivo
by Gabriel ZaidA los ojos del autor nada es más urgente que superar la voluntad ciega del progreso per se. Este libro pone énfasis en el caso mexicano pero aborda un fenómeno característico de la globalidad. Ofrece una recomendación concreta: el saber, el poder y el dinero han de concentrarse en organismos piramidales que abandonen el espejismo del progreso. El cielo que nos tiene prometido el progreso, no acaba nunca de llegar. Una gran parte de la población vive en el limbo o en el purgatorio o el infierno: al margen de una vida mejor o descontenta de sus efectos contraproducentes. Ningún progreso parece hoy más urgente que la autocrítica del progreso. Este libro "merece ser leído y estudiado por todos". No sólo "ataca por igual los dogmas del neocapitalismo y los del (pseudo) socialismo". Propone "un modelo de desarrollo diferente", Octavio Paz Hace muchos años, Monterroso dijo que si "Borges escribiera en inglés, devoraríamos sus obras en malas traducciones. Esteparece ser el caso de El progreso improductivo. No es fácil aceptar una obra escrita por un mexicano en la tradición de Adam Smith, Gunnar Myrdal, Kenneth Galbraith y Robert Heilbroner; es decir, una obra bien escrita, que hace gala de imaginación, cultura y dominio de recursos literarios y, sobre todo, de su capacidad analítica". Adalberto García Rocha
El secreto de la fama
by Gabriel ZaidCompilación de 18 ensayos sobre el artista y la fama, publicados anteriormente en revistas culturales. Recomiendo vivamente al lector las estimulantes reflexiones del poeta y ensayista mexicano Gabriel Zaid, autor de obras que he leído siempre con interés. La noción de fama va ligada a la de visibilidad creada por la industria cinematográfica y televisiva, y potenciada por internet. La ubicuidad de la imagen cubre y suplanta el valor de la obra que representa. Lo que cuenta no es ésta sino el autor, y ¿qué es el autor sino la imagen cuidadosamente retocada con maquillaje en el plató televisivo o la postura ensimismada del fotógrafo de servicio, difundida en la prensa o por la propaganda del editor? Hoy día es casi imposible publicar algo sin la foto logotipo. Basta hojear las páginas de cualquier suplemento cultural de los periódicos más conocidos del mundo para topar con el reclamo de un autor cuya mirada trascendente o pose rodinescopensativa trata de transmitir al lector la presunta intensidad de lo escrito. Juan Goytisolo.
Tres poetas católicos: Ramón López Velarde, Carlos Pellicer y Manuel Ponce
by Gabriel ZaidPara los juicios convencionales, López Velarde es el cantor de la provincia y de la “íntima tristeza reaccionaria”; Pellicer, el cantor del trópico y “las manos llenas de color”; Ponce, un sacerdote que hacía versos. Pero hay que verlos como miembros de una tribu cuyo contexto se perdió: los poetas y artistas que creyeron posible ser católicos y modernos. El sueño de crear una cultura católica moderna fracasó hasta el punto de que ni siquiera es historiado, de que la tradición crítica recibida no tiene una precaución que diga: hay cosas de la cultura mexicana que nunca entenderás, si ignoras que el catolicismo mexicano soñó con la modernidad. De Gabriel Zaid hemos publicado casi todos sus libros en esta colección.
A History of Urdu Literature
by Ali Jawad ZaidiThis work presents a compact survey of the rich and varied contribution of Urdu to the Indian literary mainstream through centuries of shared creative inspiration.
Indian Modernities: Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century
by Nishat ZaidiThis volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the 18th to 20th century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and languages from Northeast India, which form a dialogical relationship with each other in this volume. The concurrence and contradictions emerging through these studies problematize the idea of modernity afresh. The book challenges the dominance of colonial modernity through socio-historical and cultural analysis of how modernity surfaces as a multifaceted phenomenon when contextualized in the multilingual ethos of India. It further tracks the complex ways in which modernism in India is tied to the harvests of modernity. It argues for the need to shift focus on the specific conditions that gave shape to multiple modernities within literatures produced from India. A versatile collection, the book incorporates engagements with not just long prose fiction but also lesser-known essays, research works, and short stories published in popular magazines. This unique work will be of interest to students and teachers of Indian writing in English, Indian literatures, and comparative literatures. It will be indispensable to scholars of South Asian studies, literary historians, linguists, and scholars of cultural studies across the globe.
Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia: Rethinking Language, Culture And Society
by Nishat Zaidi Hans HarderThis volume critically engages with recent formulations and debates regarding the status of the regional languages of the Indian subcontinent vis-à-vis English. It explores how language ideologies of the “vernacular” are positioned in relation to the language ideologies of English in South Asia. The book probes into how we might move beyond the English-vernacular binary in India, explores what happened to “bhasha literatures” during the colonial and post-colonial periods and how to position those literatures by the side of Indian English and international literature. It looks into the ways vernacular community and political rhetoric are intertwined with Anglophone (national or global) positionalities and their roles in political processes. This book will be of interest to researchers, students and scholars of literary and cultural studies, Indian Writing in English, Indian literatures, South Asian languages and popular culture. It will also be extremely valuable for language scholars, sociolinguists, social historians, scholars of cultural studies and those who understand the theoretical issues that concern the notion of “vernacularity”.
Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India
by Nishat Zaidi A. Sean PueThis book explores the use of digital humanities (DH) to understand, interpret, and annotate the poetics of Indian literary and cultural texts, which circulate in digital forms — in manuscripts — and as oral or musical performance. Drawing on the linguistic, cultural, historical, social, and geographic diversity of Indian texts and contexts, it foregrounds the use of digital technologies — including minimal computing, novel digital humanities research and teaching methodologies, critical archive generation and maintenance — for explicating poetics of Indian literatures and generating scholarly digital resources which will facilitate comparative readings. With contributions from DH scholars and practitioners from across India, the United States, the United Kingdom, and more, this book will be a key intervention for scholars and researchers of literature and literary theory, DH, media studies, and South Asian Studies.
Cambridge Classical Studies: Oscan in the Greek Alphabet
by Nicholas ZairOscan was spoken in Southern Italy in the second half of the first millennium BC. Here, for the first time, all the evidence for the spelling of Oscan in the Greek alphabet is collected and examined. Understanding the orthography of these inscriptions has far-reaching implications for the historical phonology and morphology of Oscan and the Italic languages (for example providing unique evidence for the reconstruction of the genitive plural). A striking discovery is the lack of a standardised orthography for Oscan in the Greek alphabet, which seriously problematises attempts to date inscriptions by assuming the consistent chronological development of spelling features. There are also intriguing insights into the linguistic situation in South Italy. Rather than a separate community of Oscan-speakers who had adopted and subsequently adapted the Greek alphabet in isolation, we should posit groups who were in touch with contemporary developments in Greek orthography due to widespread Greek-Oscan bilingualism.
Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance
by Alexander ZaitchikWho is this guy and why are people listening? Forget Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity--Glenn Beck is the right's new media darling and the unofficial leader of the conservative grassroots. Lampooned by the left and lionized by the far right, his bluster-and-tears brand of political commentary has commandeered attention on both sides of the aisle. Glenn Beck has emerged over the last decade as a unique and bizarre conservative icon for the new century. He fantasizes aloud about killing his political opponents and encourages his listeners to embrace a cynical paranoia that slides easily into a fantasyland filled with enemies that do not exist, and solutions that are incoherent, at best. Since the election of Barack Obama, Beck's bombastic, conspiratorial, and often viciously personal approach to political combat has made him one of the most controversial figures in the history of American broadcasting. In Common Nonsense, investigative reporter Alexander Zaitchik explores Beck's strange brew of ratings lust, boundless ego, conspiratorial hard-right politics, and gimmicky morning-radio entertainment chops. Separates the facts from the fiction, following Beck from his troubled childhood to his recent rise to the top of the conservative media heap. Zaitchik's recent three-part series in Salon caused so much buzz, Beck felt the need to attack it on his show. Based on Zaitchik's interviews with former Beck coworkers and review of countless Beck writings and television and radio shows. Examines Beck's high-profile obsessions (Acorn and Van Jones) as well as his lesser-known influences (obscure Mormon radicals like Cleon Skousen.) Zaitchik's writing has appeared in the New Republic, the Nation, Salon, Wired, the New York Times, and AlternetBeck, a perverse and high-impact media spectacle, has emerged as a leader in a conservative protest movement that raises troubling questions about the health of American democracy.
Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature: Reforming Contentment
by Paul Joseph ZajacThis book offers the first full-length study of early modern contentment, the emotional and ethical principle that became the gold standard of English Protestant psychology and an abiding concern of English Renaissance literature. Theorists and literary critics have equated contentedness with passivity, stagnation, and resignation. However, this book excavates an early modern understanding of contentment as dynamic, protective, and productive. While this concept has roots in classical and medieval philosophy, contentment became newly significant because of the English Reformation. Reformers explored contentedness as a means to preserve the self and prepare the individual to endure and engage the outside world. Their efforts existed alongside representations and revisions of contentment by authors including Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. By examining Renaissance models of contentment, this book explores alternatives to Calvinist despair, resists scholarly emphasis on negative emotions, and reaffirms the value of formal concerns to studies of literature, religion, and affect.
Reluctant Power: Networks, Corporations, and the Struggle for Global Governance in the Early 20th Century (Information Policy)
by Rita ZajaczHow early twentieth-century American policymakers sought to gain control over radiotelegraphy networks in an effort to advance the global position of the United States.In Reluctant Power, Rita Zajácz examines how early twentieth century American policymakers sought to gain control over radiotelegraphy networks in an effort to advance the global position of the United States. Doing so, she develops an analytical framework for understanding the struggle for network control that can be applied not only to American attempts to establish a global radio network in the early twentieth century but also to current US efforts to retain control of the internet.In the late nineteenth century, Britain was seen to control both the high seas and the global cable communication network under the sea. By the turn of the twentieth century, Britain's geopolitical rivals, including the United States, looked to radiotelegraphy that could circumvent Britain's dominance. Zajácz traces policymakers' attempts to grapple with both a new technology—radiotelegraphy—and a new corporate form: the multinational corporation, which managed the network and acted as a crucial intermediary. She argues that both foreign policy and domestic radio legislation were shaped by the desire to harness radiotelegraphy for geopolitical purposes and reveals how communication policy and aspects of the American legal system adjusted to the demands of a rising power. The United States was a reluctant power during the early twentieth century, because policymakers were unsure that companies headquartered in the United States were sufficiently American and doubted that their strategies served the national interest.
Discourses of Globalisation, and the Politics of History School Textbooks (Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research #32)
by Joseph ZajdaThis book focuses on discourses of the politics of history education and history textbooks. It offers a new insight into understanding of the nexus between ideology, the state, and nation-building, as depicted in history education and school textbooks. It especially focuses on the interpretation of social and political change, significant events, looking for possible biases and omissions, leadership and the contribution of key individuals, and continuities. The book discusses various aspects of historical narratives, and some selected key events in defining identity and nation-building. It considers the role of historiography in dominant historical narratives. It analyses history education, in both local and global settings, and its significance in promoting values education and intercultural and global understanding. It is argued that historical narratives add pedagogies, grounded in constructivist, metacognitive and transformational paradigms, have the power to engage the learner in significant and meaningful learning experiences, informed by multiple discourses of our historical narratives and those of other nations.
Globalisation, Nation-Building and History Education (Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research #40)
by Joseph Zajda John WhitehouseThis book uses historiography and discourse analysis to provide a new insight into understanding the nexus between ideologies, the state, and nation-building—as depicted in history school textbooks. It focuses on the interpretation of social and political change, significant events, and examining possible new biases and omissions in school textbooks. The ‘Europeanization’ of history textbooks in the EU is an example of western-dominated Grand Narrative of pluralist democracy, multiculturalism, and human rights, according to the canon of a particularly European dimension. Various public debates in the USA, China, the Russian Federation (RF), Japan, and elsewhere, dealing with understandings of a nation-building, national identity, and history education point out to parallels between the political significance of school history and the history education debates globally.The book demonstrates that the issue of national identity and balanced representations of the past continue to dominate the debate surrounding the goals, dominant ideologies and content of history textbooks, and historical narratives. It concludes that competing discourses and ideologies will continue to define and shape the nature and significance of historical knowledge, ideologies and the direction of values education in history textbooks. This book provides an easily accessible, practical, yet scholarly insights into local and global trends in the field of history education, and should be required reading for a broad spectrum of users, including policy-makers, academics, graduate students, education policy researchers, administrators, and practitioners.
A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology (Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception)
by Vanda Zajko Helena HoyleA Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day. Reveals the importance of mythography to the survival, dissemination, and popularization of classical myth from the ancient world to the present day Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Offers a series of carefully selected in-depth readings, including both popular and less well-known examples
Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology
by Avihu ZakaiThis book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach's life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual triumph with the Nazi Revolution or the Hitler Revolution in Germany of 1933. It deals specifically with his struggle against the premises of Aryan philology, based on völkisch mysticism and Nazi historiography, which eliminated the Old Testament from German Kultur and Volksgeist in particular, and Western culture and civilization in general. It examines in detail his apologia for, or defense and justification of, Western Judaeo-Christian humanist tradition at its gravest existential moment. It discusses Auerbach's ultimate goal, which was to counter the overt racist tendencies and völkish ideology in Germany, or the belief in the Community of Blood and Fate of the German people, which sharply distinguished between Kultur and civilization and glorified völkisch nationalism over European civilization. The volume includes an analysis of the entire twenty chapters of Auerbach's most celebrated book: Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1946.
Fictions of Gender: Women, Femininity, and the Zionist Imagination (McGill-Queen’s Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies Series #1)
by Orian ZakaiIn the wake of the #MeToo movement, gender scholars and activists have asked whether a reconcilliation between Zionism and feminism is possible in the current political landscape. Fictions of Gender explores the contemporary controversies surrounding both Zionism and feminism, and how they are prefigured in the experiences and legacies of early Zionist women.Drawing on extensive archival research and the rarely studied corpus of published and unpublished creative, biographic, and essayistic writings by Zionist women throughout the intense first eighty years of the Zionist project (1880s–1950s), Orian Zakai situates Zionist women within the larger histories of colonization and the politics of ethnicity in Israel/Palestine. At the core of this study lie contemporary debates about the relationship between feminism, nationalism, and colonialism. Shifting long-standing paradigms in the scholarship on modern Hebrew literature and culture, Zakai confronts the study of gender and Zionism with the critical sensibilities of contemporary global feminism. Read both critically and compassionately, the writings of women authors and activists not only reveal lives full of contradictions but also point to cultural structures that shape the politics of Israel/Palestine to this very day.Fictions of Gender rethinks Israeli feminism through the lens of contemporary feminism, intersectionality, and post-colonialism.
A Final Story: Science, Myth, and Beginnings
by Nasser ZakariyaPopular science readers embrace epics—the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social. And the appeal is understandable: in writing these works, authors such as E. O. Wilson or Steven Weinberg deliberately seek to move beyond particular disciplines, to create a compelling story weaving together natural historical events, scientific endeavor, human discovery, and contemporary existential concerns. In A Final Story, Nasser Zakariya delves into the origins and ambitions of these scientific epics, from the nineteenth century to the present, to see what they reveal about the relationship between storytelling, integrated scientific knowledge, and historical method. While seeking to transcend the perspectives of their own eras, the authors of the epics and the debates surrounding them are embedded in political and social struggles of their own times, struggles to which the epics in turn respond. In attempts to narrate an approach to a final, true account, these synthesizing efforts shape and orient scientific developments old and new. By looking closely at the composition of science epics and the related genres developed along with them, we are able to view the historical narrative of science as a form of knowledge itself, one that discloses much about the development of our understanding of and relationship to science over time.
Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism
by Zeena Zakharia Ofelia GarcíaThis book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American ethnolinguistic communities for their children in the multilingual city of New York. Employing a rich variety of case studies which highlight the importance of the ethnolinguistic community in bilingual education, this collection examines the various structures that these communities use to educate their children as bilingual Americans. In doing so, it highlights the efforts and activism of these communities and what bilingual community education really means in today's globalized world. The volume offers new understandings of heritage language education, bilingual education, and speech communities for bilingual Americans in the 21st century.