Language, Space and Power

Samina Hadi-Tabassum received a doctorate degree from Columbia University and is currently an Assistant Professor at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. She is the director of the Bilingual and ESL Program. Her research interests include bilingual education, multicultural education, and linguistics.

• ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Research SettingChapter 2. Language Space and Power: Examining Metalinguistic Conflicts Along the BorderlandsChapter 3. The Cheers: The Ethics of Making Aesthetic JudgementsChapter 4. Jack, Su Mama Y El Burro: The Performitivity of Race, Gender and Language in a Bilingual PlayChapter 5. The Flow and Movement of Music: Appropriating the Third SpaceChapter 6. Conclusion: False Binaries and True DialecticsReferencesIndex

"Dr. Hadi-Tabassum’s critical ethnography of a fifth grade dual language classroom challenges the positivist view of language and culture in education as bounded, essentialized entities. Dr. Hadi-Tabassum explores how students utilized resources in music, language arts, and popular culture to make fluid the seemingly clear and definite border between English and Spanish and Anglo and Latino/a cultures. In these “third spaces” where English and Spanish mixed in politicized and poetic forms, Dr. Hadi-Tabassum offers a vision of contemporary education within hybrid and contingent events."