Language Rights and the Law in the United States: Finding our Voices

Abstract

A history of language rights - between tolerance and hostility nativism and language restrictions - echoes of the past at the end of the 20th century fulfilling the promise of citizenship - English literacy, naturalization and voting rights language rights in the workplace - negotiating boundaries within close spaces language rights in litigation - making the case for greater protections in criminal and civil proceedings bilingual education - learning and politics in the classroom Native American education - the US implements an English-only policy administrative due process - when almost any process will do the English-only marketplace - the dangers of misusing language for profit the place of international law in promoting linguistic human rights within the United States.

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