Title: Teaching, A Life’s Work
Author(s): Sonia Nieto, Alicia López
Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York
ISBN: 9780807761090 Pages: 176 Year: 2020
We believe that speaking, reading, and writing in and about more than one language can be an act of bravery, especially as bilingualism has become suspect in our nation, something not to be treasured. We are also living at a time when immigrants are routinely maligned, when children are locked in cages, and masses of people are deported with little recourse to the kinds of opportunities that European immigrants had in the past. Their immigrant past is something that many now have relegated to amnesia. Speaking and writing about these topics, for both us and our students, has become extraordinarily meaningful to us.
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