Articles with keyword "language"
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The United States of Mestizo
A term of conquest and miscegenation now describes a cosmopolitan identity and worldview.
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Poetry Speaks
“Voice registers the weird sexiness of reading poetry, the illusion it enables of a private tryst between author and reader.” So says Lesley Wheeler, an English professor at Washington and Lee Univers
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First, Count to Ten...In Pescadora
Archaeologists from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum working in Peru have unearthed a piece of paper used in the early seventeenth century by a Spanish priest to conduct an interview and record num
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Mon Dieu!
“The issue of keeping the French language alive in Louisiana,” says Dana Kress, a professor at Centenary College in Shreveport, “is always accompanied with great wailing, much pulling of hair, and fev