Speak American : The Politics of Race, Language, and Education in Territorial Hawai`i - Christine R. Yano FictionSpeak American explores how language tied together race, power, and citizenship in Territorial Hawai`i from 1924 to 1960 via the public K 12 English Standard School System. In this segregated system, children were tested for spoken English fluency: those who passed were placed in elite classes or schools, while others remained in regular classrooms. Proposed by white mothers, the policy used language as a tool to implement de facto racial separation,
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The perfect lie
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and whether the state should subsidize culture-to create vivid imaginative dialogues about important contemporary social and political controversies
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Halberstadt tracks down his paternal grandfather - most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin