Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of English Only

by James Crawford

Book Overview

Crawford takes readers inside the English Only Movement, revealing its destructive and xenophobic side. Exploring beliefs about free education, attitudes toward foreigners, respect for native... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 020155044X
• ISBN13: 9780201550443
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

The greatest book on multiculturalism I've ever read

This book blew my socks off. James Crawford is the best known authority on multilingualism in the U.S. The book gives a true and fair depiction of multicultural commuinties around the country, both before and after paranoid nativist bigots get English Only and similar measures passed, making obvious how un-American and disastrous they are. Every American should read this book. The more-patriotic-than-thou types are threatening to destroy the real essence of our country. Crawford gives a clear idea of some of what we will lose if they win.