ERIC Number: EJ1109032
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 15
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Counternarrating Racialized Expectations at School: The Diverse Enactments of "Non-Dominant" Identities among 1.5-Generation Japanese Immigrant Youth
Endo, R.
Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, v15 n4 p201-215 2016
This study adds to the research on the education of Asian immigrant adolescents by situating how generation, language, nationality, and race complexly impacted how a group of 1.5-generation Japanese youth have made sense of their multiple "non-dominant" identities as immigrant Americans and transnational students within an urban high school setting that publicly promoted a mission of inclusivity but, in practice, devalued "non-dominant" cultural and linguistic expressions. The findings highlight how the youth have contested the English-only ideologies and racialized expectations at their school through alternative literacies and other diverse enactments of their identities, such as by speaking Japanese or Japanglish (a mix of Japanese and English) and expressing their "Made in Japan" pride through the public display of nationalistic symbols and various bilingual or Japanese-language textual representations. New directions are offered for theorizing 1.5-generation Asian immigrant youth linguistic expressions with implications for practice and theory.
Descriptors: Immigrants, Japanese, Self Concept, Race, Japanese Americans, Urban Schools, High School Students, Institutional Mission, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation, Bilingualism, Linguistic Borrowing, Student Attitudes, Educational Policy, Language Usage, Ethnography, Teacher Attitudes, Classroom Communication, Teacher Student Relationship, Personal Narratives
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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