The War of Translation: Colonial Education, American English, and Tagalog Slang in the Philippines

Vicente L. Rafael The Journal of Asian Studies / FirstView Article / March 2015, pp 1 – 20 DOI: 10.1017/S0021911814002241, Published online: 24 March 2015   This paper examines the role of language in nationalist attempts at decolonization. In the case of the Philippines, American colonial education imposed English as the sole medium of instruction. Native students were required to

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Why Interculturalidad is not Interculturality

Colonial remains and paradoxes in translation between indigenous social movements and supranational bodies DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2014.899379 Robert Aman, Cultural Studies, Volume 29, Issue 2, 2015, pages 205-228   Abstract Interculturality is a notion that has come to dominate the debate on cultural diversity among supranational bodies such as the European Union (EU) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in

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