Academic Literature - Language

Communications Landscaping – North and Latin American Transnational Communities

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Use of Spanish and English in the communications media in the United States and the impact of language on the transnational communities' culture.

• Voices of New York
  Lenguage: English
  
  In the Fall of 2001, the New York University Morse Academic Plan (MAP) course, The Language of America's Ethnic Minorities, undertook a project to hear the voices of real and imagined immigrant communities, and learn about the people behind them. The students of this class traveled throughout the city to seek out neighborhoods where thirty-four separate ethnic cultures were thought to be flourishing. There, they discovered the degree to which the distinct languages of groups (LOTE: Languages other than English) are being maintained or lost, and the implications for cultural distinctiveness or assimilation.
  • Dominicans in Sunnyside and Woodside
    By: Randy Jimenez and Pete Dzierzynski
  • Ethnic Communities in New York City: Dominicans in Washington Heights
    By: Pauline Nguyen and Josephine Sanchez
  • Flatbush Avenue: Little Haiti
    By: Shana Ashby-Jobes, Valerie Buisson, and Nana Akua Nuamah
  • Mexican American Communities in New York City
    By: Mynor Gonzalez and Nancy Levine
  • Survival Without English: Salvadorans living in Washington Heights
    By: Miki Fernandez and Jenny Reyes

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