Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part One. The Narratives: Peculiar to Your Mind
  • Our Languages, Our Selves
  • Maya: It Doesn't Bother Me
  • Grace: I Always Wondered If My Life Would Have Been Different If
  • Reia: Searching for My Place
  • Deidra: A Mother's Love Is the Greatest Love of All
  • Sonja: I Had to Do What I Wanted to Do
• Part Two. The Analyses: Surreality
  • Maya: I'm Comfortable Like I Am:
  • Grace: If I Could've Gotten into a Trade School
  • Reia: I Am Proud of Myself
  • Deidra: I Was Hiding. I Didn't Know. I Was Scared
  • Sonja: I Had a Positive Experience
  • The Rest of the Story
• Appendix 1. Participants' Possible Selves Data
• Appendix 2. Participants' Speech Samples Data
• Appendix 3. Participants' Language and Literacy Ideologies Data
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Promotional Information

"This book is a major achievement by one of the brightest young scholars in the field." -- Geneva Smitherman, author of Talkin That Talk: Language, Culture, and Education in African America

About the Author

Sonja Lanehart is a professor of linguistics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona.

Reviews

"This book is a major achievement by one of the brightest young scholars in the field." Geneva Smitherman, author of Talkin That Talk: Language, Culture, and Education in African America