Cultural authenticity and transnational Latina youth: Constructing a meta-narrative across borders

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 258-282

  Sánchez, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Cultural authenticity; Narrative; Participatory research; Second generation immigrant; Transnational Latina

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549050687     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2007.07.007     Document Type: Article

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