Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Bilingual Personhood and the Cultural Politics of Asian American and Latino Literature; 1. Cultural Brokers in Interwar Orientalism; 2. Bilingual Personhood and the American Dream; 3. Schooling Bilinguals In and against Multiculturalism; 4. Dormant Bilingualism in Neoliberal America; 5. Global English and the Predicament of Monolingual Multiculturalism; Epilogue: The Future of Bilingual Brokering; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Bilingual Brokers examines bilingual personhood in Asian American and Latino literature through postwar debates on bilingualism to illustrate a regime of flexible inclusion where an economic calculus of value for racialized subjects crystallizes at the intersections of language and racial difference and is used in deliberations of social worthiness
